The Invisible Moose - Softcover

Dennis Haseley is a teacher, author, community organzier, and a professional fund raiser. Some of his titles are The Invisible Moose, The Soap Bandit, The Kite Flier, Photographer Mole and The Amazing Thinking Machine.. 

Steven Kellogg is a beloved author and illustrator who has published more than 100 picture books, including the classics The Mysterious Tadpole, Can I Keep Him?, The Island of the Skog, and Is Your Mama a Llama?, and Pinkerton, Behave!, which was on Horn Book's and Booklist’s Best of the Year lists and led to four sequels. Kellogg is a winner of the Regina Medal for his lifetime contribution to children’s literature. His books have received numerous accolades, such as being named Reading Rainbow featured selections and winning the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Irma Simonton Black Award, the IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Award, and the Parents’ Choice Award.

PreS-Gr. 2. In a Canadian forest, a shy moose with oddly curved antlers loves a beautiful moose from afar. Their first conversation, though, is tragically interrupted by an animal trapper, who captures the beauty and takes her away. The he-moose spots the truck's New York City license plates and vows to rescue his beloved. He visits the forest's mad scientist, an owl who equips him with travel directions and an invisibility potion that enables him to pass unseen across the U.S. border and on to New York, where his search takes him through the city's landmarks. At last, in a seedy alley, he locates his darling's captors, and after sharing the potion, the two invisible animals slip away. Haseley's far-fetched tale doesn't maintain a smooth momentum through the journey from forest to an owl's laboratory to the booming city. But Kellogg's delightful pencil-and-paint illustrations of the see-through moose pull the story's elements together. They greatly amplify the silliness, magic, and sweet romance, while the sparkling, snowy scenes make this a good choice for winter read-alouds. Gillian Engberg
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