Before falling asleep each night, Willoughby Smith stares out his bedroom window at the moon. But he’s alarmed one night to discover the moon is no longer shining in the sky. Following a tiny light, Willoughby discovers the moon inside his closet, along with a gigantic snail that has lost his ball and needs Willoughby’s help finding it. The two become instant companions, traveling across the moon’s terrain on a buggy and sailing through the galaxy on a space pod before finally consulting the snail’s map of the moon and discovering the ball in a cave. Greg Foley’s imaginative bedtime story speaks to common childhood fears in a comforting context. His dreamlike fantasy is told through vivid descriptions and striking illustrations in shiny silver, black, and white. Highly Commended, 2011 Charlotte Zolotow Award (Ages 3–7)

Every night, the moon outside Willoughby's window gets smaller, and smaller, and smaller . . . until one night it disappears!

But Willoughby isn't afraid of the dark. Not really. He just wants to know where the moon went.

When he finds it in the most surprising place, he sets off on a magical adventure and meets a new friend who seems to be scared of lots of things—moon buggy rides, space pods, big rocks. . . . But it's Willoughby who has to overcome his own biggest fear in order to help his friend.