The Mole Sisters and the Moonlit Night

Deborah Dowson is a Canadian children’s librarian living in Powell,
Ohio.

The natural world is a place where anything is possible, and the mole
sisters are ready to explore everything to experience it for themselves.

In The Mole Sisters and the Blue Egg, they are looking for something
but won’t know what it is until they find it. The search takes them
inside an enormous tree, then up a huge staircase to a tree limb that
holds a bird’s nest. The sisters try out the nest and pretend to be
birdies flapping their wings. Then they slide down the staircase
bannister and land in the grass where they find a blue egg shell. Each
half of the shell makes a perfect bucket seat for a swing. As the mole
sisters say, “it’s all good stuff.”

In The Mole Sisters and the Moonlit Night, the sisters discover that
the world is a magical place. As they gaze into the night sky and make a
wish upon a shooting star, they find themselves admiring the view from
the moon! Wishing themselves back home they complete their sensational
adventure and arrive back on Earth with a feeling of total serenity.

These small picture books are perfect bedtime stories. The soft shades
and muted lines of the colored-pencil illustrations characterize the
gentle tone of the stories. The Mole sisters are siblings without
rivalry—even without separate identities as they think, act, and speak
as one. Their sense of adventure and fun is magnified, however, because
it is shared. Their cheerful, inquisitive, and peaceful natures are a
natural delight. Recommended.