Regards to the Man in the Moon

Regards to the Man in the Moon is a 1981 children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats.
The book was published by Viking Children's Books.

Plot summary

Louie is unhappy because the other kids call his father "the junk man". But his father knows it is not just junk. "All a person needs is some imagination! And a little of that stuff can take you right out of this world!" So Louie builds a spaceship fueled entirely by imagination—and blasts off into an amazing adventure.

Reception

Martha Rasmussen of The Des Moines Register wrote that "power of imagination vividly in the collage illustrations that make Louie's pretend space voyage as full of drama, wonder, danger and beauty as the real thing." Ann Waldron of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote: "The message is a great one, and Keats' paintings of space are gorgeous." The Record-Journal opined that Keats' "colorful drawings are as captivating as his fun-filled text."