Moon Phases

The Moon Through the Month is a beautifully illustrated guide designed to help children understand the changing Moon while inspiring them to step outside and experience it for themselves. Through simple, child-friendly explanations, children discover why the Moon has phases, how its appearance changes throughout its 29½-day cycle, when and where to look for each phase, and what they might notice when they do. Along the way, they’ll explore the eight familiar Moon phases, daytime Moon watching, the long history of people observing the Moon, traditional Moon names and stories, and hands-on activities including a Moon observation journal, interactive phase wheel, crater experiment, and month-long Moon calendar. More than a book of facts, it is an invitation to look up, pay attention, wonder, and return to the sky again and again—turning the science of the Moon into something children can actually observe, experience, and discover for themselves.