The Rooftop Rocket Party

by Roland Chambers

Book Overview

A boy with a passion for rockets heads to New York and discovers--to his amazement and delight--that the water tanks adorning the city's rooftops are really rocket ships and that the Man-in-the-Moon... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761318887
• ISBN13: 9780761318880
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.9" x 11.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

my toddler loves it

my daughter loves this story. we live in ny and she loves to imagine the rockets on the roofs are real.

Young children love it.

My two-year old son asks for this book all the time. He likes the pictures and the story and has now started noticing "rooftop rockets" on buildings. An exceptional, imaginative, intelligent book.

Great book for the preschool set

My 3-year-old always selects this book as one of the 5 books we read each night before bedtime. The illustrations are beautiful and colorful and the story is well-written without being too long and drawn out. My son loves books, but has a short attention span (as 3-year-olds do) and has, in the past, preferred books with only a sentence or two on each page. The Rooftop Rocket Party is so engaging that he pays close attention to the story, even though there are several small paragraphs on some pages, and asks a lot of questions about what's going on. There are enough fun characters and memorable lines that we act out parts when we read it together. We borrowed this from the library but he loves it so much I will have to buy it for him!

A wonderful treat!

Beautiful, whimsical pictures, a strong, sympathetic hero and a charming, inventive tale about science and imagination make this a wondeful book for children, and a lot of fun for adults! The Man in the Moon playing his pale violin will become an icon for those who read this as children - this has the makings of a classic.