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The Coziest Place on the Moon
2025
First Published
4.10
Average Rating
44
Number of Pages

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. Feeling like the loneliest creature on Earth, Re decides to go live in the coziest place on the moon. She packs her suitcase and takes off on a beam of light, shooting out into the cosmic aloneness of space. Her aim is to go into the cozy nook she has heard the moon possesses. But shortly after her arrival, she discovers that she is not alone. Indeed, another lonely soul has beat her there! And so, Re meets Mi, and while each lives in her 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.

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4.10
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Author

Maria Popova
Maria Popova
Author · 8 books
Maria Popova is a reader and a writer, and writes about what she reads on Brain Pickings (brainpickings.org), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. She hosts The Universe in Verse—an annual charitable celebration of science through poetry—at the interdisciplinary cultural center Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.
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