''Regards to the Man in the Moon'' is a 1981

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by American author and illustrator

Ezra Jack Keats Ezra Jack Keats (né Jacob Ezra Katz; March 11, 1916 – May 6, 1983) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the 1963 Caldecott Medal for illustrating '' The Snowy Day'', which he also wrote. Keats wrote '' A Letter ...

. The book was published by Viking Children's Books.

Plot summary

Louie is unhappy because the other kids call his father "the junk man". But his father knows it is not just junk. "All a person needs is some imagination! And a little of that stuff can take you right out of this world!" So Louie builds a spaceship fueled entirely by imagination—and blasts off into an amazing adventure. 1981 children's books American picture books Books by Ezra Jack Keats Science fiction picture books Children's books set on the Moon {{child-book-stub