Molly's Moon Mission

by Duncan Beedie, Duncan Beedie (Illustrator)

Overview

A little moth with big dreams plans to show everyone just how far she can go in this sweet celebration of space and the spirit of adventure.

Molly the moth loves her home and her family, but she yearns for adventure. So by day Molly helps her mother, and by night she prepares for her space mission — to the moon! But nobody Molly meets believes that a little moth can make it all the way to the moon. It’s no easy feat for a moth to fly so far, but luckily Molly has no intention of giving up on her dream!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536210163
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	03/27/2020
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	628,554
Product dimensions:	10.06(w) x 11.56(h) x 0.33(d)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

Duncan Beedie is an author and illustrator who began his career in children’s TV animation. He is the creator of The Lumberjack’s Beard. He lives in Bristol, England.

Editorial Reviews

Readers accustomed to the dismissiveness of their elders will cheer as, despite all distractions Molly achieves her goal at last, triumphantly taking that one small step...What better role model than a bug with the right stuff to make her dreams come true?
—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-03-29
Molly the moth goes where no moth has gone before.

The back of a closet is too small to hold Molly’s yen for adventure, and so she dons a paper helmet and blasts off past her skeptical mom toward that bright light in the sky—which turns out to be a light bulb. “The moon is much bigger and much further away,” says a fly. “Too far for a little mite like you.” Oh yeah? Onward and upward! Past the street light and its equally discouraging spider, past the dizzying lighthouse, all the way to the “biggest, brightest, farthest light she could see” in the night sky. That would indeed be the moon…where she helps two astronauts (one white, one a person of color) gather samples and make dust angels. In return they give Molly both a lift home and a genuine mission patch. In his illustrations, Beedie goes for cuteness over verisimilitude by outfitting his insect astronaut with long lashes, a hair bow, and wings that look more decorative than functional. Readers accustomed to the dismissiveness of their elders will cheer as, despite all distractions Molly achieves her goal at last, triumphantly taking that one small step. She takes the next step too, going on in a final scene, after her mom (who also rises to the occasion) proudly welcomes her back, to prepare her younger sibs for flights of their own.

What better role model than a bug with the right stuff to make her dreams come true? (Picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews