Mordicai Gerstein's How To Bicycle To The Moon

Mentor Author Study Mordicai Gerstein was born in Los Angeles, California in 1935. He spent twenty-five years working as a designer, an artist and director of animated films before turning to children’s books. In 1971 he joined Elizabeth Levy, and together they created the series Something Queer is Going On. In 1980, he started writing and illustrating his own books. His books are wide ranged from subject, style and the age group addressed from contemporary fantasy and Biblical retellings, to biography and absurd alphabets, for preschoolers, young adults and even adults. Mordicai Gerstein not only demonstrated amazing illustrations, but he also demonstrated a lot of reading with the reader’s eye. In the book The White Ram he
Maybe it will be you!” He makes the narrator talk to the reader, which makes the book nice to read because you feel connected to the story. Gerstein also demonstrated great detail, “Attach all the hoses together till they’re 238,900 miles long and wind them onto a gigantic spool. (238,900 miles is the distance to the moon).” This is great detail, showing that if you were to actually try and do this, you know what you would need to do. He also demonstrated great description, “the loudest sounds will be your heart beating, your stomach gurgling and the electric buzzing hum of your nervous system.” This is a good example because it gives you a feeling of what he is going through instead of just saying space will be very
This is a charming tale of "Sparrow Jack 's" predilection for the little birds, but it 's too bad there 's no note about the truth--many people imported English sparrows to the U.S. Lively and harmonious compositions range across every spread in a pleasing variety of frames.

Gerstein, Mordicai. The Absolutely Awful Alphabet. Harcourt 1999. (5) K-3 Alliteration (i.e."A is an awfully arrogant Amphibian annoyed at. . .") strings together a narrative about the loathsome features of each member of the alphabet and the various ways they plague each other. Although the alphabetically shaped monsters have different faults and physical features, the repetitive way in which they are represented makes them all run together.

Gerstein, Mordicai. The Man Who Walked between the Towers. Roaring Brook 2003. (1) K-3 Is this another September 11 book? No--and yes. In 1974, Philippe Petit, the French street performer and high-wire walker, couldn 't resist the temptation to dance between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Gerstein pulls the reader into the story with a conversational style extended by playful pen and paint illustrations. Like Petit, Gerstein conceals much careful planning behind an obvious enjoyment of his