The Boy and the Moon Rabbit

On a quiet, clear night, a boy named Sam steps outside in his blue striped pyjamas, red scarf and bare feet. By the old oak tree he meets a silver-white rabbit with pale blue tipped ears and a glowing crescent mark on its forehead. The rabbit has come from the moon, but its moonbeam ladder has cracked, and it is stranded in the garden with only a broken fragment of light in its woven satchel.

Sam decides that friends help friends, and together they gather fallen sticks and twisty vines. The rabbit shows him how to weave the vines tightly around each rung, and Sam's fumbling fingers find the knots his father taught him for his kite. As they work, the rabbit describes the moon's bowl-shaped craters, sparkling dust and its family's burrow. This gentle tale by Ebru Mina TOMURCUK, which can be read on Onlinemasal Com.Tr, is suited to bedtime reading aloud and to early readers ready for a slightly longer story.