Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me: Book and CD (World of Eric Carle) - Softcover

Carle, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481416456 ISBN 13: 9781481416450

Publisher: Little Simon, 2015

Synopsis

A father will move heaven and earth to delight his daughter in this book and CD package from children's book legend Eric Carle and narrated by award-winning actor Stanley Tucci.

In this beloved picture book from Eric Carle that includes a CD with audio narration by Stanley Tucci, Monica wants to play with the moon, but she can't quite seem to reach it. The story literally unfolds as the pages extend both outward and upward, and readers will empathize with Monica's longing for the moon as well as be reassured by her father's willingness to try to make her dream come true. Children and adults alike will enjoy this beloved tale about a father's love!

About this title

About the Author:

Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for very young children, including The Tiny Seed, Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, and his most well-known title, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Born in Syracuse, New York, Eric Carle moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the prestigious art school, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in Stuttgart, before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer for The New York Times and later as art director for an advertising agency. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, now considered a modern classic, has sold nearly fifty million copies and has been translated into sixty-five languages. With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002. Eric Carle lives in the Florida Keys.

Academy Award-nominee Stanley Tucci is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor who has also been nominated for a Tony and a Grammy, among countless other critical and professional accolades. He has appeared in more than fifty films, including The Lovely Bones, Julie & Julia, The Devil Wears Prada, The Terminal, Road to Perdition, The Hunger Games films, and more than a dozen plays both on and off Broadway.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Simon
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1481416456
• ISBN 13: 9781481416450
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Carle Eric