I Want the Moon Frann Preston-Gannon 9781787419254

Working late at his desk in his office one night,
the man raised his head as the space filled with light.
Moonbeams and memories flooded the room
as did his longing of owning the moon . . .

An over-indulged little boy grows into a very wealthy man who has everything he could possibly want on Earth. There is only one thing left that he MUST have - the moon he coveted as a child.

Plans are drawn, machines built and factories sent spluttering into the air. Giant towers grow up and up and up. Soon the moon is nearly within the man's grasp - but someone else wants it too. Their tug of war ends in disaster when the moon shatters into a thousand pieces. It is up to the children to come to the rescue . . .

A richly-detailed and heartwarming story with an important message about greed, happiness - and where NOT to look for it.

Frann Preston-Gannon is a London based illustrator and designer. Her first picture book, The Journey Home, was published in October 2012 and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Prize. In April 2011 she became the first UK recipient of the Sendak Fellowship, and in 2018 the poetry collection she illustrated I am the Seed that Grew the Tree was the Waterstones Gift Book of the Year. Frann has been widely published, including by Nosy Crow, Vintage Books, Lonely Planet, Walker Books, Powerhouse Publishing, Scholastic US and Chronicle Publishing. For Templar her publications include In The Swamp By the Light of the Moon, The Bad Day, Bird's Eye View and The Man and the Moon.