小鼴鼠看見天上掛著又圓又大，亮晶晶的東西好興奮呀！兔子、刺蝟、松鼠告訴牠，那是月亮，它很遠是碰不到的。但是小鼬鼠還是很想擁有它。

他拿起棍子勾呀勾，怎麼也勾不到；克服恐懼爬上大樹，伸手努力想摘到它，卻不小心跌到了地上。這時月亮也一同滾了下來，落在一攤水窪中…小鼬鼠真的摘到月亮了嗎？

繪本分鏡式的構圖，靜態畫面中有「動」的感覺。柔美的音樂歌曲，描述孩子為了得到喜愛的東西，努力的一試再試，那種單純可愛的渴望。

"Hot-diggerty! Whatever's that?" exclaims Mole as he burrows out of the ground one night and catches sight of the moon. He thinks it's the most beautiful thing he's ever seen and he wants it, so he sets about trying to pull it down – to no avail. When all his efforts prove to be in vain, he suddenly notices the moon's in a puddle at his feet and reaches to pick it up and breaks it. Poor Mole is inconsolable, until he is shown that the moon is not broken at all, but just as beautiful as ever, hanging in the sky like a bright silver coin. And it's not as near as it looks!