The Coziest Place on the Moon
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From Marginalian creator Maria Popova and acclaimed illustrator Sarah Jacoby comes this gorgeous picture book about the dark side of the moon, and creative solitude as an antidote to loneliness.
A Publishers Weekly Big Indie Children’s Book of Fall 2025!
Feeling like the loneliest creature on Earth, Re decides to go live in the coziest place on the moon. Re packs a suitcase and takes off on a beam of light, shooting out into the cosmic aloneness of space.
Re's aim is to go into the cozy nook that the moon is said to possess. But shortly after arriving, Re makes a surprising discovery: Re is not alone. Indeed, another lonely soul has beaten Re there! And so, Re meets Mi, and while each lives in their own chamber of the nook, these two single souls still become, at times, a kind of togetherness.
Each remains alone but less lonely, and now each can watch over the solitude of the other. Moreover, on certain nights, the solitary songs of them both might be heard cadencing the night together, in harmony, across the vast and starry sky.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A creature in search of "happy-alone" solitude—"that feeling which feels like hearing your own voice singing you back to yourself"—drives a perceptive, science-anchored story from Popova (The Snail with the Right Heart) and Jacoby (Everything Is Fine!). One midsummer day, a fuzzy blue hedgehog-like creature, Re, awakens "feeling like the loneliest creature on Earth" and travels via light beam to find "the coziest place on the moon, a perfect nook pitted deep into the Sea of Tranquility." Upon reaching the location—where "it is always the temperature of a spring afternoon"—Re is gratified to find a cave in which to feel happy-alone. Soon, a kindred spirit, fuzzy yellow Mi, is revealed, and the two agree to each separately occupy the cave's converging tunnels—occasionally calling to one another "across their two parallel tranquilities" and periodically harmonizing together. Alongside sometimes abstract text, inky, immersive scenes of the cuddly subjects have a velvety texture and an occasionally biolumi-nescent-esque glow. The creators' meditative, capacious portrayal of solitude reassures that there are many ways to be alone. An author's note concludes. Ages 5–8.
