A review by littlebookjockey
Field Trip to the Moon by John Hare

5.0

I'm probably going way deeper into this than necessary, but hey, that's what I got a degree in English literature for. An interesting observation is that the child in this book is not given a specified gender. What I take that to mean is that boys, girls, and even non-binary readers can relate to this character, which I think is excellent in a picture book. Additionally, I found this to be a sort of found-family story. During the field trip, the child remains separate from the group, prefering to draw art instead of participate with everyone else, indicating that they may feel like they don't fit in with the rest of the class. Even though the child is reunited with the group on the space bus at the end, while they are separated, the child make friends with the aliens on the moon, even giving away the colored crayons which are obviously so important to them and keeping the gray one so that they can draw their new friends for memory keeping.