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Activity: More Faux Phases II

Children's picture books often depict the moon's phase in error. See Bad Moons Rising for an explanation of these erroneous illustrations.  

  Title
Author/Illustrator
Publisher
The Story What's wrong 
with this picture? 
Bats Around the Clock

Author: Kathi Appelt
Illustrator: Melissa Sweet

Harper Collins Publishers

"The clock struck twelve...and the midnight hour ended..."  Afterward, everyone went home.  
Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour

Author: Eve Bunting
Illustrator: Donald Carrick

Clarion Books

At "twelve o'clock, midnight" the nearly full moon is low and casting "moon shadows on the ceiling."  
The Moon Seems to Change

Author: Franklyn M. Branley
Illustrators: Barbara and Ed Emberley

Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

This otherwise excellent book on moon phases suggests a waning crescent can only be seen "at night--long after we're usually asleep."  It also takes the liberty of omitting the gibbous phase in its list.  
Petey's Bedtime Story

Author: Beverly Cleary
Illustrator: David Small

William Morrow and Company, Inc.

Presumably in the evening (suggested by events in the story) the father drives to the hospital.  
lewisclark8.jpg (30904 bytes) lewisclark10.jpg (38806 bytes) [Publishing info to be uploaded.] A moon is visible low on the horizon throughout the story.  Shown are Day Eight of an adventure and two days later at Day Ten.  
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Why Does the Moon Change Its Shape?

Author: Patricia Murphy

The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.

Two images are described as the near side and far side of the moon.

A series of images depict the phases of the moon.

Image accompanies description of a lunar eclipse.

 

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