Publishers Weekly described Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me as 'a wondrous work of art that will stand up to countless readings'. The story also tackles concepts of wish-fulfillment and imagination. The book introduces children to the lunar phases, showing the Moon 'shrinking' and 'growing' in the sky every night. As the nights go by, she watches the Moon gradually reappear in the sky, going from waxing crescent to full Moon. The Moon agrees to shrink, becoming a waning crescent, and Monica plays with it until it shrinks so small that it vanishes. He gets a ladder and, placing it atop a huge mountain, ascends to the Moon only to discover it is too big to carry down. She cannot reach it and asks her father to bring it to her. Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me tells the story of Monica, a young girl who dreams of playing with the Moon. The book's aim is to educate children about the phases of the Moon.

Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me uses a distinctive collage style, typical of Carle's work by 1986, achieved by painting tissue paper, cutting it into pieces, and assembling it. As with Carle's earlier title The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969), merchandise has been based on this story and it has been adapted to animation. It tells the story of a young girl, Monica, who wants to play with the Moon. Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me is a children's picture book designed, illustrated, and written by Eric Carle, published by Simon & Schuster in 1986.

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