In this magical picture book, a little girl named Monica asks her father to get the moon for her so she can play with it. Her loving father finds an extraordinarily long ladder and climbs all the way up to the moon. The moon is too big to carry, so it tells Papa to wait until it gets smaller, which it does as it wanes. Papa finally brings the shrinking moon down to Monica, who dances with joy before it begins its journey back into the sky.