Isadora Moon and the Shooting Star PB

Daughter (aged 5) loved the book

Cover is fine, book is good

Granddaughter loves these books

Great books

Bought for my granddaughter who has several in this series, she loved it 😊

Thank you so much my daughter loves the books her littles just light up 🤩

Isadora Moon is feeling a little bit panicked. Her teacher, Miss Cherry, is going to teach the class all about the night sky and has invited the famous astronomer Astrid Luna to come and speak to them. More importantly, though, she wants everyone to make something creative that’s connected to space by the end of the week but Isadora doesn’t know what to make and she certainly doesn’t want to copy what her friends are making! Fortunately Isadora’s vampire dad absolutely loves astronomy (mainly because he has no problems with staying awake all night) and is very happy to help her. He invites her to stay up late and stargaze with him and when they see two shooting stars fall to the opposite side of town. Excited, they go and look for them and find Nova, a Glow Sprite from the planet Glistopia who is looking for her moon kitten Pluto, who got too close to Earth while they were out playing. Glow Sprites are frightened of humans so Isadora and her family have to help her hide her identity while trying to locate Pluto but they have to do so within the next 24 hours because Nova’s mum will be back from work by then and Nova doesn’t want her to know that she was out playing. Can Isadora help her new friend and come up with a project for school? The 14th in Harriet Muncaster’s self-illustrated fantasy series for children aged 6+ sees half-fairy, half-vampire Isadora have a cute out-of-this-world encounter with an alien. I liked the relationship between Isadora and her dad (particularly her dad’s attitude to camping) and Luna’s nervousness around humans plus there are some fun activities for children to do when they’ve finished reading. I have read a couple of the preceding books in this series and I think they’re great for girls who like pink and glittery but also like more dark and gothic stuff as well. It’s breezy and cute and Isadora’s first person voice makes it very easy to relate to her and her problems - in this case, her concern about coming up with a good project for school that doesn’t just copy what her friends are doing. This book sees her doing more on the vampire side of her heritage, which I have to say I enjoy because I like the relationship between her and her father, who we find out here is really into astronomy and I hand on heart empathised with his desire to not have to go camping. One of the nicest things about Isadora is her kindness and it’s genuinely warming that she’s friendly to Luna when she first meets her and curious rather than frightened. In fact, I thought Muncaster was clever in showing that it’s Luna who’s heard bad things about humans and is therefore quite anxious about being around them. I particularly enjoyed the scene where she accompanies Isadora to school and meets her friends, who all ask the type of questions you would absolutely expect younger children to ask. As with the previous books there are a mix of activities for children to do at the end of the book, which I think is a great idea because the activities all tie back to the story and mean that readers get something more from it. All in all, I think this is a really lovely series that’s perfect for younger readers and I would definitely read more of it.

My 6 year old adores these books! She gets so excited for bedtime. We read them together (she reads a page, I read a page). She loves them!

Por corresponder siempre lo q se pide y lo q llega y de buena calidad

My 6y.o. daughter liked the story very much. On top of that, the book comes in a very cool design with silver glittery page edges! I would like to use this opportunity re reflect on the 1-star review to this book given by Hannah Daunton here on amazon.de. First, I do invite you to read this review yourself. In short, Hannah complains that the book falls short on true facts about astronomy and that because she--Hannah--has a degree in astronomy she is worried that while this is obvious to her this might not be so to the rest of us--mere mortals. The Hannah then decides to give this book 1 star because the book misrepresents the true astronomy facts. Important to note that Hannah mentions she and her child have all other book about Isadora and they love them very much. The fact that Hannah and her child have all other book about Isadora and they love them very much is puzzling in the light of this 1-star review. So, the twisted astronomy fact is a no-no but somehow it is totally ok with Hanna that Isadora is a half vampire and a half fairy, can fly with her little black bat wings, can do magic, has as her friends among others such magical creatures as mermaid, a ghost, and a walking-talking soft toy? So it looks like Hanna's astronomy degree does not help her to see that these things are, well, do not exactly match well with the reality... I find it rather odd that anyone would criticize a book for a 5-7 old child based on the fact that it "misrepresents" scientific knowledge about astronomy when at the same time the main character of the story is a half fairy and a half vampire... This makes me thing that Hanna's review is not an honest one and that Hanna might have had some alternative goal when posting it here.

Muy buen libro según la información presentada.

british writer so hard to get in the US. So thank you Amazon US. not just for girls, my grandson is enjoying it too.

My daughter loves these books!