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What do you have that God hasn’t given

you? And if everything you have is from
God, why do you boast as though it were
not a gift?
1 Corinthians 4:7, NLT
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Fool Moon Rising

Text and illustrations copyright © 2009 by Kristi and T. Lively Fluharty
Published by Crossway Books
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fluharty, Kristi
Fool Moon Rising / Kristi and T. Lively Fluharty.
p. cm.
Summary: The Moon learns the importance of humility and the dangers of pride after
boasting about being the greatest light in the sky.
ISBN 978-1-4335-0682-6 (hc)
1. Stories in rhyme. 2. Moon--Fiction. 3. Pride and vanity--Fiction. 4. Christian lfie--
Fiction.] I. Fluharty, T. Lively, ill. II. Title.

PZ8.3.F6824Fo 2009
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Astronomical thanks to

Lindsey, Lily, Madeline, Millie, and Tasya

Jon and Pam, Tony and Karalee, Rick and Delaine,
Kirk and Barbara, C.J., Gary, Stacey, and Lisa

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Written and Illustrated by

Kristi & T. Lively Fluharty

W H E AT O N , I L L I N O I S
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Dear God,

I heard a cosmic story

And wondered if it’s true.
The Moon was stealing glory
And this is what he’d do.
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He bragged each night that his great might
Could make the darkness flee.
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And like a kite he scaled the heights

And said, “Hey look at me!”
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The pompous moon would only croon

The songs that praised his name.
He hoped that soon the cosmic tunes
Would bring him greater fame.
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It’s really strange but he could change

His shape throughout the year.
His face would change, then rearrange
And sometimes . . .
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. . . disappear.
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He loved the thought that astronauts

Had danced across his face.
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And cosmonauts and monkeynauts

Would visit him in space.
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He bragged that he could cause the sea

To rise and swell each day.
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Then all could see how mightily

He’d pull the waves away.
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He’d boast away and loved to say,

“I am the greatest light!”
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Until one day a piercing ray

Showed him a shocking sight.
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He saw his pride and then he cried

For all that he had done.
For he had lied when he denied
His light came from the Sun.
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So now each night a new delight

Is what he loves the most.
Reflecting light with all his might,
The Sun is now his boast!
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So God I pray for grace each day

To find the joy that’s true,
In all my days and all my ways
In making much of YOU!
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He made the stars also.

Genesis 1:16, NASB
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The Whirlpool Galaxy

“X” Structure at Core of Whirlpool Galaxy

GALACTIC DIDACTICS
Why do you think the book has the title that it does?
What is the Moon doing that is wrong?
Does the Moon ever open his eyes in the story? When?
How does the Moon learn to stop being a fool?
What truth does the Moon finally acknowledge?
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Hourglass Nebula

The Majestic Sombrero

DID YOU KNOW?

• The first fruit eaten in space was a peach.

• A stronaut Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon. He stepped
on the moon with his left foot first. The size of his footprint was 13 by 6 inches.

• A stronaut Alan Shepard brought golf balls to the moon on Apollo 14. He hit a
golf ball that went 2,400 feet, nearly one half mile. He left his golf clubs and
golf balls on the moon.

• T he temperature on the moon reaches 243 degrees Fahrenheit at midday and

falls to -261 degrees Fahrenheit at night.

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