Books like Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me
By Eric Carle
For the kid who has asked for something impossible at bedtime, this is the story of a papa who actually tries. Quiet, tender, and a little magical — a nighttime wonder story.
A poor washerwoman on the island of Martinique uses her mother's magic wand to help her beloved goddaughter Cendrillon win the heart of a rich man's son.
A little girl sets off to find the perfect gift for her mother, journeying up through the sky and meeting the stars, the moon, and the sun along the way.
A great-grandson wanders through his grandfather's topiary garden, where hedges shaped like a farmboy, a soldier, and a chickenpox-covered kid retell a whole lifetime one memory at a time.
A little critter spends a special day at the beach with his grandma, navigating sand, waves, and small mishaps while soaking up her patient company.
A fisherman and his young son head out to sea and come across a whale caught in netting, a wordless encounter that draws them into its struggle to survive.
On the night a child is born, the whole natural world responds — the moon lingers, geese fly home, polar bears dance — celebrating that this one and only child has arrived.
A parent shares a string of tender wishes for a child — to find wonder in flying birds, to know love as vast and constant as the moon loves the sky.
A young boy spends his mornings with his Baba, his grandmother, tending her garden and eating together, until the day comes when he gets to care for her the way she's always cared for him.
On a moonlit night, a childless couple discovers a dozen tiny babies scattered in a meadow after a magical moonshower, and takes them in to raise as their own.
Two brothers spend an evening fishing with their mama, each one asking who's better at digging worms, rowing, and catching fish — and, at bedtime, who she loves the most.
A gentle, repeating question moves through the animal world — from kangaroos to lions to dolphins — showing every baby, a joey, a cub, a calf, has a mother who loves it.
A baby and his mom are home alone when the doorbell rings again and again — Auntie, Uncle, Nannie, Gran-Gran, and all the cousins arrive, each one determined to hug, squeeze, and love the baby SO MUCH.
