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Projects and experiments explore scientific principles related to the sun and moon, particularly those which explain eclipses.

A simple introduction to earth's single moon.

Illustrations portray a father and his child going fishing against a background of Stevenson's poem about nightly happenings in the light of the moon.

As a farm family celebrates the moon's cycles, they describe how the moon changes throughout the seasons.

A detailed description of the sun, moon, and the earth along with hands-on experiments and observations and full-color photographs taken by telescopes on Earth and in space.

A young boy looks at a plane in the sky and imagines flying one all the way to the moon.

Presents ten experiments on such topics as the sun's heat, sunlight's colors, the moon's phases, and eclipses, and includes discussions of the concepts explored.

When the moon gets stuck between two hills, the unicorn tries to free it with help from a griffin and an alchemist.

Possum awakes one autumn evening and decides to invite his animal friends to a party to celebrate the beautiful harvest moon one last time before the long winter.

An out-of-this-world ode to the sun, moon and stars in eighteen poems collected by Lee Bennett Hopkins.

Suhaila's wish to know her deceased grandmother is granted when a golden ladder appears at her window and Grandma Annie invites her on a journey to the moon, where they welcome people who are facing tragedy.

An innkeeper's chore boy discovers that a visitor's stories hold the key to returning the moon to the Starry River of the Sky.

Helped by a very long ladder, a young boy is astonished when he tries to prove the moon is just a big hole in the sky.

Presents information on the geology, atmosphere, seasons, and orbit of planet Earth.

Martha the cow refuses to give milk until she can visit the moon like her great-great-grandmother before her, the cow who jumped over the moon.