A review by brandon_the_beldam2993
The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon, by David Almond
2.0
First things first: This is a children's tale.
It just drove me nuts my critical brain screaming "That's wrong. That's impossible. Why is this person behaving this way!?" But I digress. What is the story? One day a young boy decides he wants to touch the sky, really touch it. Alright. Along the way he meets a curious cast of characters who help him and with a little game he thinks the moon isn't a physical object but an empty space in the sky. A "Hole in the sky" as he puts it and he wants to touch it to see if his theory is correct. So him and the cast including his parents get the world's tallest ladder and Allow him freely to climb up to touch the moon because in this world the moon can fit inside the earth's atmosphere. There's some stuff that happens too. This book can be enjoyable if you really observe in a metaphorical sense. But its not, its reality, these events literally happened. Its pure fiction. Let's leave it at that.
It just drove me nuts my critical brain screaming "That's wrong. That's impossible. Why is this person behaving this way!?" But I digress. What is the story? One day a young boy decides he wants to touch the sky, really touch it. Alright. Along the way he meets a curious cast of characters who help him and with a little game he thinks the moon isn't a physical object but an empty space in the sky. A "Hole in the sky" as he puts it and he wants to touch it to see if his theory is correct. So him and the cast including his parents get the world's tallest ladder and Allow him freely to climb up to touch the moon because in this world the moon can fit inside the earth's atmosphere. There's some stuff that happens too. This book can be enjoyable if you really observe in a metaphorical sense. But its not, its reality, these events literally happened. Its pure fiction. Let's leave it at that.