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How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers: A Simple but Brilliant Plan in 24 Easy Steps
40 pp.
| Roaring Brook |
April, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-1-59643-512-4$16.99
(2)
K-3
How would you get to the moon? To begin with, a giant slingshot fashioned from inner tubes can propel a line of garden hoses, anchoring it to the moon with a flagpole arrow. The second-person instructions are ingeniously detailed, brimming with an unfettered mix of real and pseudo information, as are the precisely imagined and neatly rendered illustrations.