How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale Collection)

How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale Collection)

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<span>How the Moon Regained Her Shape</span><span> is a fiction picture book for children.  Janet Ruth Heller has written a legend influenced by Native American folktales that explains why the moon changes shape and helps children deal with bullies.<span> </span>The sun insults the moon, and the moon feels so badly hurt that she shrinks and leaves the sky.<span> </span>The moon turns to her comet friend and her many friends on earth to comfort her.<span> </span>Her friends include rabbits and Native Americans. Then she regains her full shape, happiness, and self-esteem, and she returns to her orbit.<span> A</span>n educational appendix gives advice about bullying, scientific information about the moon, and ideas for related activities for children. </span><br><span></span><br><span>This book has won four national awards for its lyrical writing and its wonderful artwork. <span>Illustrator Ben Hodson won a Benjamin Franklin Award for this book's artwork in 2007.<span> </span>How the Moon Regained Her Shape also won a Book Sense Pick (2006), a Children's Choices award (2007), and a Gold Medal in the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards (2007).<span>  </span>The book was also a finalist for the Oregon Reading Association's 2009 Patricia Gallagher Picture Book Award.</span></span><br><span><span></span></span><br><span><span></span></span><span><span>Children will learn from this book 1) that they need to tell friends and adults when bullying occurs, 2) that a bully's insults are seldom true, 3) that children will recover from abuse, <span>and 4) that we can be friends with people who are different from us.</span> Bullying thrives in secrecy<span>, and most kids feel intimidated by abuse.</span> Adults will learn that many children need the help and advice of friends and adults to stop bullying and to recover from the loss of trust and self-esteem that such harassment causes. </span></span>