Books like Moon Plane
By Peter McCarty
For the kid who turns every passing plane, train, or boat into a daydream, this book slows down and follows that daydream all the way to the moon. Quiet, dreamlike, and hushed — a bedtime-paced journey through the sky.
A little girl's wish comes true when she and her baby brother set sail for a day aboard a ship called The Maggie B, just the two of them and the open sea.
Two curious siblings hop a rock wall into the desert beyond, climbing nopal trees, examining empty turtle shells, and imagining the sun's power inside them until their mom's whistle calls them home.
A boy falls asleep holding a book and drifts into a wordless dream world where chess pieces come alive, a dragon appears, and landscapes shift from canyons into cities before his eyes.
A young boy sets off on a moonlit walk armed with only an oversize purple crayon, drawing his own path through woods, seas, and dragons before finding his way safely back to bed.
A collection of poems imagines a curious inn run by poet William Blake, where dragons, angels, and a Man in the Moon all check in for the night.
A little girl who wants a pony more than anything draws a dappled mare she names Silver, then imagines riding her through a magical countryside and even among the stars.
A group of children on the beach hear an old Japanese tale about a fisherman who rides a turtle down to a beautiful world under the sea, then ask questions about what it means.
One ordinary Tuesday evening, a pond full of frogs suddenly rises into the air on their lily pads and drifts off to explore the sleeping town nearby.
A journey through a string of impossible moments — a swing that soars past treetops, a bike path made of falling leaves, balloons that turn a gray sky postcard-perfect — where the everyday world quietly becomes something else entirely.
A young man buys a violin for one silver piece, and the moment he plays it, fish take to the air, cows start dancing, and apple trees sprout cake and ice cream.
A boy drifts off to sleep and dreams he's driving a night train through the countryside, stopping again and again to let endangered animals climb aboard.
