Sentence examples for moon a book from inspiring English sources

Her novel What's Up With Jody Barton? was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Children's Book Award – won by Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon, a book that Hayley Long told us was her inspiration for Sophie Someone, so that's neat!

"First Men to a Geostationary Orbit" does not have quite the same ring as "First Men to the Moon", a book von Braun wrote in 1958.

At the airport in Salt Lake City, he picked up a copy of "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon," a book about the emotional life of farm animals, because the pig on the jacket reminded him of his dog.

EVERY once in a blue moon, a book comes along that seems to articulate my most deep-seated fears about the future of America, its economy and its body politic.

He read Max Goes to the Moon, a book by astrophysicist and author Jeffrey Bennett, on the final flight of the space shuttle Discovery.

A black-and-white photograph of this building, reproduced in "Saturn's Moons," a book collecting various reminiscences about Sebald, has a sooty northern grimness that makes it hard to imagine a color version of it.

To explore the art of illustrating the moon, borrow a book on it or check out photos online of the moon to study the fine detail of the moon's craters and other significant marks and colorings.

"I wanted to be a pioneer in this relatively new medium," he said in his 1988 memoir, "Moon Walk" (a book, incidentally, edited by Jacqueline Onassis).

"Maggot Moon is a book I've always wanted to write and Standish has been waiting to be written for years.

After graduating, he taught English as a foreign language in various countries around the world and it was while in Hiroshima that he wrote The Old Moon, a sprawling book of 365 chapters dense with characters and subplots.

Like "Cold Mountain," then, "Thirteen Moons" is a book with grand, bordering on grandiose, ambitions.