This is my review for the book, The Moon Shines Down by Margaret Wise Brown, Illustrated by Linda Bleck (for product info., you can go to http://www.thomasnelson.com/consumer/product_detail.asp?sku=140031299X). 

The Moon Shines Down is being published for the first time ever after being found deserted in a trunk!  It was written by Margaret Wise Brown, the author of Goodnight Moon; my mom read that book to me many times when I was little kid.  It is funny that both books had to do with the moon :).  Laura Minchew finished the incomplete manuscript.  This book is a cute story for children.  The illustrations are very bright and colorful.  The story is told in poetic form and it is told from the point of view of a little koala.  The koala travels from the Australian outback to China to England to Mexico and onto other countries.  I am sure the pictures of children and scenery from around the world will be appealing to children.  The "theme" of the book is that the moon shines on everyone in the world...on children everywhere.  It reminds me of a Bible verse.  "He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." Matthew 5:45  Do I like the book?  Yes and no.  I think the illustrations were nice and as I said, the story was cute but it is for young children and does not interest me very much.  A verse from the book that sums this review up well is, "God Bless the Moon And God Bless me."