The Sea of Tranquility — Mark Haddon
This beautiful children’s book features a child on the front, looking wistfully at the moon, accompanied by a ratty yellow bunny rabbit. As we open the cover, we find him sitting on his bed playing with a rocket, and we learn that he has a solar system on his wall. As he drifted off to sleep at night, he would look at the planets, but by far his favorite was the moon. Sometimes he would borrow his father’s binoculars and look at the real moon outside. For Christmas, he received an atlas of the moon, and he spent hours reading … Continue reading