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Set ingeniously sideways on the pages to make room for the long descent, this is the journey through space of the Boy in the Moon, sent by the Man in the Moon to fetch ""that other moon"" they have often seen in the water. Down he goes, past stars and through clouds, past airplane, birds, kite, bats, and balloon, past treetops and a girl on a ladder picking apples. . . .Surely, you begin to think on each page, he'll have to hit bottom soon--but on he goes, past chimney and house and the store below, drifting over the street, past the wharf and into the water--where he finds at the very bottom, a glittering round looking glass: ""the nicest moon I have ever seen."" The Man in the Moon thinks so too, and now consults it ""whenever [he] wanted to talk with someone truly wise."" A charming little conceit, with delightfully down-to-earth drawings and a moon you have to smile back at.

这是一本从下往上翻的书，上下两个画面加起来，就变成了一个长长的竖画面了。依卜•斯旁•奥尔森为什么要别出心裁地选择这样一个超长的画面呢？因为这是一个从天而降的故事。月光男孩为了给月亮寻找另外一个月亮，拎着篮子出发了。他落啊落啊，从天上落了下来，先是穿云而过，然后是飞机、一大群候鸟、风筝、气球、站在梯子上采苹果的小女孩、打扫烟囱的黑脸男人、红砖房、街道，最后“扑通”一声落到了水里……整个故事就是一个下落的过程。尽管在半道上曾经遭遇过狂风，被吹得东倒西歪，但月光男孩基本上还是一条直线落了下来。这下我们明白了，还有什么开本，比这种窄长的画幅更适合表现这个由上往下降落的过程呢？这种拉长的画面，有效地增加了阅读时的距离感。如果将这一幅幅长长的画面连接起来，就宛如一幅长卷，从天上一直垂到了地上，月光男孩的奇异旅程尽收眼底。