It's field trip day, and students are excited to travel on their yellow spaceship bus from their space station to the moon in this wordless picture book. An ALA Notable Children's Book A Golden Duck Notable Picture Book Climb aboard the spaceship bus for a fantastic field trip adventure to the moon! Once their bright yellow ship lands, students debark and set out with their teacher to explore. They jump over trenches and see craters and mountains on the moon's surface and even Earth in the faraway distance. But when one student takes a break to draw some pictures and falls asleep, they wake up to discover that the rest of the class and the spaceship are gone. How the student passes the time waiting to be rescued makes for a funny and unexpected adventure that will enchant children all over the galaxy. With rich atmospheric art, John Hare's wordless picture book invites children to imagine themselves in the story--a story full of surprises including some friendly space creatures. A perfect complement to discussions and lessons on the moon landing. Don't miss Field Trip to the Ocean Deep, another wordless adventure! Recipient of the Pied Piper Literary Prize An ILA-CBC Children's Choice! A Pennsylvania Center for the Book Baker's Dozen Selection! A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Horn Book Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Book of the Year - Outstanding Merit

Poetry. "The poems in Sunni Wilkinson's THE MARRIAGE OF THE MOON AND THE FIELD show us history, affection, private struggle, and the common life with a kind of grave, irony-tinged happiness that is rare in the poetry of our time. Her poems turn away from complaint, as though she had set out to reveal instead the domestic life of intelligence in all its color, warmth, and depth. This is a very fine debut volume, worth treasuring; and more are sure to follow."�Christopher Howell "There is much of wonder in a first book of poems: a new voice, a freshness, other ways of being and believing. And so it is with Sunni Brown Wilkinson's THE MARRIAGE OF THE MOON AND THE FIELD. There are marvelous poems here, poems that range through the world: Vienna, Juarez, Andalusia, Mozambique, Venice. The poet tells us 'I've looked into the world and found / my own life reassembled and given back to me / with broken glass and a birdsong.' There are poems of family (parents, children, grandparents), our primal world, and there are poems of immigrants, asylum seekers, the displaced. And weaving through all of them there is a sweet charity, a belief in grace, and a tenderness toward existence. There is as well a recognition that tragedy and loss make up a part of our lives, but in Wilkinson's vision these can be redeemed since 'we're verses with a space in between / for our own small hallelujah.' These are poems that 'you can ride...into tomorrow.' Sunni Wilkinson is a welcome new poet for our times."�Joseph Stroud "Sunni Brown Wilkinson's poems sustain a compelling tension between the macro and micro worlds. Scientific facts of the physical realm collide with intimate interiorities. She turns a steely eye and a tender heart toward the experience of living fully in the rush of the NOW and the flickering echoes of what came before. These are lushly rendered poems to savor and/or to devour."�Nance Van Winckel

Fields is the last link to the other five books, it shows how the Dust in Heaven follows the macroscopic rules to make the Black Hole Fields, the Galaxy Fields, the Star Fields, and the Planetary and Moon Fields. The Planetary and Moon Fields have rules that allow matter to exist in Inanimate Fields and Animate Fields. Earth provides the essential environments that have the temperature, the pressure, the air, the water, the elements, and the food necessary for life to exist in the different biomes. Life starts out simple searching for food and water. This process is helped by the development of sensors connected to a brain. Within ecosystems, plants make their own food, animal herbivores prey on plants while animal omnivores prey on other animals. Only human beings pray to a Creator. This resulted in caring for the Creator’s creation. Villages were created where crops were grown and animals were domesticated. The human senses were used to develop the Language, Art, Dancing, and Singing Fields. With cultural development came the need to store information and data. This led to the creation of the Writing Field where information was stored in books that were stored in libraries. This was the start of the Fields of Knowledge. Today we have an Information and Data Storage Field where data is stored electronically on hard drives, compact discs, memory sticks and computers. Data can be accessed via computers which are easily available via an extensive Computer and Information Technology Field. It is amazing to think that the dust in a cloud circling a Black Hole can achieve that without the help of a Creator. This book shows that though the Matter in Heaven is large and vast, it appears to go through the same life cycles as the living Matter on Earth namely birth, youth, middle age, old age and death. Just as the stars make the elements which they release into Space when they die, making way for new stars with more exotic elements and compounds, so also, human beings join the Fields of Knowledge and release information into the Fields of Knowledge to make ever more interesting Fields for new future stars to come into existence. The ancients believed that Earth was the geometrical center of the Universe and everything revolved around the Earth. They, were only partly correct, through Fields we can see that the Earth is not the geometrical center but the center for knowledge and consciousness. As everything we know about the Universe is understood and measured on the Earth through the Fields of Knowledge. Perhaps, the most interesting lesson to learn from Fields is not to prey needlessly on lifeforms living in their biomes, instead pray to the Creator to give us the wisdom to make machines and cities that will help us live in harmony on the Earth, and help us to take our consciousness and the Fields of Knowledge to other stars and galaxies, so that the we have a Universe with both mind and matter.

Earth-moon field orbit representation by restricted three-body problem and comparison with rotating Kepler orbits.