How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers: A Simple but Brilliant Plan in 24 Easy Steps

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In this simple, step by step instructional picture book, learn how you too can visit the moon on your bicycle All you need is a very long garden hose, a very large slingshot, a borrowed spacesuit, and a bicycle and plenty of imagination With tongue firmly in cheek, Caldecott Medal winner Mordicai Gerstein outlines the steps needed in glorious comic book style panels and a deadpan voice, leaving nothing out the food you ll eat, how to deal with loneliness in space, how to water those sunflower seeds once they re planted even how to deal with the media attention back home after a successful trip An inspired work of whimsy, How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers is a spacefaring adventure for daydreamers and a starter kit for the imagination. Best Read [ How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers: A Simple but Brilliant Plan in 24 Easy Steps ] author [ Mordicai Gerstein ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr YAWN.SNOOZE.No thanks.This is one of those wacky outside the box picture books, but I kind of like it I love that it takes kids imaginations seriously and envisions an entirely implausible, but completely well thought out plan for planting sunf...I really, really, REALLY like this one For one thing, it is written in the second person , as an instruction manual for doing the title And then it is just great fun to read and to view When I got the advanced copy last fall I wrote this blog post about it Don t miss it the book, that isThe cover says, It s easy and fun Ha Kindergarten to 2nd graders will have a good time with this earnestly absurd story It s reallyof an instruction book, so it could probably use a disclaimer, but I m glad there s not one If a kids asks to borrow your old garden hose, you ll know what they re up toI should have loved this, but somehow I didn t Something a little too cutsey about it.This will totally be the central component of my Moon Storytime.How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers is a picture book for older readers It is a story of a plan told from a little boy s perspective on how to ride your bicycle all the way to the moon He came up with this idea for himself, but he can t execute it, so he s telling everyone else There are 24 easy steps Some of the steps are finding a bicycle, finding 2000 inner tubes, tie a huge rope to a tree to launch yourself into space, etc This book is considered a STEM book because it talks How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers is a picture book for older readers It is a story of a plan told from a little boy s perspective on how to ride your bicycle all the way to the moon He came up with this idea for himself, but he can t execute it, so he s telling everyone else There are 24 easy steps Some of the steps are finding a bicycle, finding 2000 inner tubes, tie a huge rope to a tree to launch yourself into space, etc This book is considered a STEM book because it talks a lot a...This wonderful how to book will spark children s imaginations and give teachers a not so dry model for this type of text I especially like how some of the steps are sub divided into 11a and 11b, for example It could be easy to show how Gerstein might have used a spider chart or flow chart when he was first drafting this book, and then give students to do their own brainstorming, charting and drafting, all inspired by this whimsical book For science teachers, this could be an opportunity for This wonderful how to book will spark children s imaginations and give teachers a not so dry model for this type of text I especially like how some of the steps are sub divided into 11a and 11b, for example It could be easy to show how Gerstein might have used a spider chart or flow chart when he was first drafting this book, and then give...This picture book walks the reader through the steps necessary in order to visit the moon, using your bicycle The idea starts within a young boy who plans to bring some happiness and color to the moon He creates an elaborate plan, which includes a variety of materials and the supplies needed to get there The creativity in the young boy is inspiring as he seems to have put a lot of time and effort into his grand plan He is well prepared and has thought of many rare opportunities, and their so This picture book walks the reader through the steps necessary in order to visit the moon, using your bicycle The idea starts within a young boy who plans to bring some happiness and color to the moon He creates an elaborate plan, which includes a variety of materials and the supplies needed to get there The creativity in the young boy is ins...procedural_writing humourVery funny imaginary set of 24 procedures explaining how one could cycle to the moon to plant sunflowers needs huge suspension of belief but just the thing for young students with a surfeit of imagination and not enough facts to tie them down.

How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers: A Simple but Brilliant Plan in 24 Easy Steps
  • English
  • 20 February 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 40 pages
  • 1596435127
  • Mordicai Gerstein
  • How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers: A Simple but Brilliant Plan in 24 Easy Steps