Dear Mom,
I’m running away and won’t ever come back. From now on I live on the moon. Don’t try to stop me.
Love, Sophia
Mika Song’s and my new picture book, Love, Sophia on the Moon, goes out into the world today, and while it won’t be launched in the usual ways (our book party was canceled, and I won’t be visiting it in stores or going out for a celebratory milkshake), I’m still feeling proud and so grateful.
This epistolary story about anger, imagination, unconditional love, and moonicorns comes straight from my heart—and Mika Song’s beautiful illustrations are utter (and udder) perfection. Booklist called Love, Sophia on the Moon a “lovely, funny, tender story” with “incredibly clever storytelling,” and Kirkus Reviews predicts, “Readers will love it to the moon and back.”
If you’d like to judge the book for yourself, please call your local bookstore (many are offering curbside pickup, local delivery, or shipping) or order it using one of these links: Bookshop | Indiebound | B&N | Amazon | Target | Indigo | Book Depository (ships worldwide) | BAM. You can also watch and share this video of me reading it. Thanks, as always, for your interest and support.
P.S. The cows say no one gets sick on the mooooooon, so please join us there for moonberry tarts and asteroid tea at half past a comet 💙