One fine summer evening, a hungry bear decides that he would like to taste a piece of the moon and builds a rocketship to get there.

Marion's painting of a Moon Man comes to life and seeks ways to shine like the real moon.

After landing on the moon, Chris and his friends consider drinking monster juice to fight off acid-belching monsters.

In 2041 on Moon Base Alpha, thirteen-year-old Dash must solve the mystery of how Lars was poisoned before the base loses oxygen, forcing the colonists to return to Earth.

The youngest member of the firefly family wants to join the others in lighting up the forest, but when she finally gets the chance, she sees the moon, thinks it is another, far larger, firefly, and loses her courage.

In 1969, as her own family is falling apart, ten-year-old Mamie finds comfort in conducting a one-sided correspondence with the least famous astronaut heading toward the moon on Apollo 11.

Cornwall 1794. The birth of a son to Elizabeth and George Warleggan serves only to accentuate the rift between the Poldark and Warleggan families. And when Morwenna Chynoweth, now governess to Elizabeth's eldest son, grows to love Drake Carne, Demelza's brother, the enduring rivalry between George and Ross finds a new focus for bitter enmity and conflict.

Monica's father fulfills her request for the moon by taking it down after it is small enough to carry, but it continues to change in size. Some pages fold out to display particularly large pictures.

Prickle Moon is the first collection of stories by multiple awardwinning Australian writer Juliet Marillier.