Moon Man

晴れた星空の夜には、月のぼうやが宇宙のきらめく椅子に丸まって座っている姿が見られます。ぼうやは月から人々が踊るのを眺めてうらやましい気持ちになっていました。
「一度でいいから、ぼくも一緒に楽しく踊れたらいいのに」と思いました。
「ここの生活は退屈すぎるよ」
ある夜、流れ星がひらめきました。月のぼうやはちょうどいいタイミングで飛びおり、彗星の燃える尾をつかまえました。

彗星にのって地球に墜落した月のぼうや。その騒音で、近くの町から何百人もの人々が集まってきます。地球を守るために急いで駆けつけた兵士。消防士たちは燃える光を消そうします。アイスクリーム屋はやじうまのために開店準備をします。

未知の生命にパニックになる政治家、軍人、警察官、あやしい科学者……それに楽しくダンスを踊る人々！　さまざまな人々が入り乱れて月のぼうやは地球を冒険していきます。

トミー・アンゲラーの絵本です。

Moon Man
by Tomi Ungerer (Author)
Format:Hardback 40 pages
Publisher:Phaidon Press Ltd
Imprint:Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN:9780714855981
Published:27 Feb 2009
Weight:460g
Dimensions:314 x 241 x 9 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Description
‘The bright, galloping illustrations are as effective as any Tomi Ungerer has done. This has some of the sting of Dr Strangelove – but tenderized, the contemporary charisma of Where the Wild Things Are: it’s great! Exceptionally highly recommended’ – Kirkus Reviews In this beautifully illustrated and delightfully quirky tale by one of the world's best-loved and acclaimed storytellers, the Man in the Moon looks down on the happy, dancing people on Earth every night, wishing he could join them. He hitches a ride on a passing comet and crash-lands on Earth, where he quickly finds himself thrown into jail by people who take him for an invader, rather than a friendly visitor.

The Moon Man, however, has a most unusual – but perfectly logical – means of escape, and sets out to make his way back home. With gentle satire, Ungerer pokes fun at self-important adults who are afraid of anything or anyone unfamiliar and reminds us that there is indeed no place like home. On its first publication in the US in 1967, at the height of the Space Race, Moon Man won the Book Week prize for books for children aged 4–8, and Maurice Sendak described it in Book Week as 'Easily one of the best picture books in recent years' Since then, it has been translated into 12 languages.