When I was a child, but of unknown age, I read a series of books about
an alien who was from the moon.  It was somewhat cartoonish and some of
them took place on the moon and some of them took place on earth.  I
remember one story in particular where the moon man invented a
frictionless compound out of coke syrup.

I cannot remember the name of the book, series nor author.

Hello.

According to several newsgroup messages, the story about a
frictionlees compound derived from Coca-Cola is  "Bob Fulton's Amazing
Soda Pop Stretcher" by Jerome Beatty, Jr.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-1&selm=19971223213901.QAA09293%40ladder02.news.aol.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DISO-8859-1%26selm%3D19971223213901.QAA09293%2540ladder02.news.aol.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-1&selm=3D0CE730.8050607%40comcast.net

The book is available used from Alibris.com
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=750237&ptit=Bob%20Fulton%27s%20Amazing%20Soda%2DPop%20Stretcher&pauth=Wilson%2C%20Gahan%20%28Illustrator%29%2C%20and%20Beatty%2C%20Jerome&pisbn=&pbest=2%2E95&pbestnew=1000000%2E00&pqty=10&pqtynew=0&matches=10&qsort=r

The author, Jerome Beatty, Jr., also wrote a series about a "moon man"
named Matthew Looney.

See: "Matthew Looney's Invasion of the Earth: A Space Story "
"An expedition force from the Moon is sent to invade the Earth but
leaves the planet in such haste that Matthew Looney is left behing."
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=4240558&matches=8&qsort=r
  	 	
"Matthew Looney in the outback; a space story."
"Because of tense conditions between moonsters and earthlings, moon
man Looney is sent to establish a peaceful colony on a new planet."
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=4240556&matches=6&qsort=r
	
"Matthew Looney and the space pirates : a space story"
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=4240554&matches=17&qsort=r

"Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth"
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=4240559&ptit=Matthew%20Looney%27s%20Voyage%20to%20the%20Earth%2C%204&pauth=Beatty%2C%20Jerome&pisbn=&pbest=2%2E95&pbestnew=1000000%2E00&pqty=14&pqtynew=0&matches=14&qsort=r

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search strategy:
google groups, rec.arts.books.childrens, coca-cola
alibris.com, jerome beatty

I hope this helps.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 26 Apr 2004 01:57 PDT

Sorry for that typo above:
"frictionlees" = "frictionless"

Dead on.  That is the right one and it was found in less than a day!