- The voice
- Cool and quiet
- Home
- The Crescent MoonUp where the stars go out one by one
- Part of
- The skyTardy as sun, moon, cloud and moon bow.
The story of Tardy Moon
The Tardy Moon is the one who is already in bed. While the Tardy Sun oversleeps every morning, the Moon has never once been late for night in his life — a big, full, round face of soft cream-grey, rising slowly with his ring of eight small moons turning gently around him, like Saturn wearing a night-time crown. Count them: eight, always eight, evenly spaced, the nearer ones drifting past in front and the further ones behind. His face carries the family snout as a ring of little craters, and the whole of him works the opposite way to his opposite number: the Sun pours light out; the Moon holds his light in, a gentle cool glow that never glares, never dazzles, never asks anything of a child except that they look. And here is the quiet magic of him: he is the one character in this whole world who is also outside the window. Look up on any clear night, last thing. There he is. Already in bed, same as you.
Friends
Tardy SunHis opposite number, who will not get out of bed.
Also from The Crescent Moon
Straight from the sheet
Every character is drawn once, properly, on a sheet — the same way the books were made. This is Tardy Moon’s.
In the archive
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