Has the moon ever followed you home at night?
Max loves his grandpa. When they must say good-bye after a visit,
Grandpa reminds Max that the moon above them at Grandpa's house is the
same moon that will follow him all the way home. And on that
swervy-curvy car ride back home Max smiles as the moon tags along,
thinking of Grandpa. But when the sky darkens and the moon disappears
behind clouds, Max worries that it did not follow him home after all.
Yet when the clouds part and light streams through his window, he
realizes that Grandpa was right--the moon was with him all along.
Floyd Cooper received the Coretta Scott King Award for The Blacker the
Berry, two Coretta Scott King Honors for Honey in Broomwheat Tea and
I Have Heard of a Land, and an NAACP image award. His books have also
been named to numerous best books list and been given many Parents
Choice Awards. In Max and the Tag-Along Moon, his lush paintings
perfectly capture the wonder of the moon, the love between grandfather
and grandson, and that feeling of magic every child experiences when the
moon follows him home.