“The most moving picture book I have read in recent years. It captures a child’s psychological journey with extraordinary subtlety. There is something Tarkovsky-like in its nostalgia, melancholy, and purity. I hope the author creates more works with this depth of thought and aesthetic beauty.”
—Reader MAYA

“Pure and clean. Reading it feels like reading The Little Prince.”
—Reader Douyou 186693903

★ A picture book about family, growth, and finding hope in the darkness.
★ Selected for the inaugural “100 Children’s Picture Book Creations” project.
★ Lyrical as a prose poem, this book uses nostalgic sepia tones, varied panel sizes, and shifting spatial perspectives to create a rhythmic visual flow that draws readers into the story’s emotional world.
★ The weight of the subject matter is gently softened by poetic language and subjective emotion that veil the underlying reality of hardship.

In a small, nameless town, the people had not seen a clear, bright moon for a very long time.

A child born with a disability grew up listening to the stories his father told him about the moon. Through those stories, he came to long for the world beyond and dreamed of leaving the town with his father.
One night, jolted awake, he began to question the existence of the moon, the world around him, and his own place in it. Doubt stirred within him for the first time. Yet in the end, he chose to hold fast to his father’s stories and to go on living with hope for the moon.

Luo Rongrong

Ph.D. in Art from Kyoto Seika University, Japan, where she studied under Professor Jaqueline Berndt. Member of the International Animation Association and the Jiangsu Science Popularization Artists Association. She currently serves as a faculty member in the School of Art and Design at Nanjing Tech University.

With over twenty years of deep engagement in contemporary art and visual narrative, her work spans academic research, artistic creation, and teaching. She has been invited to exhibit and present at conferences in Austria, the United States, Japan, Poland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, South Korea, and Australia. Her artwork has received numerous international and national awards.