The Garden Behind the Moon

About this book

David is lonely in his seaside village, but each evening he watches a strip of moonlight stretch across the water. One night a Moon-Angel invites him to follow it, and the silver path leads to a garden hidden behind the moon.

Howard Pyle wrote and illustrated this tender fantasy, filling its hidden world with a flying horse, an iron castle, a princess and a dangerous giant. The adventures carry an undercurrent of loneliness and longing, particularly when David returns to the ordinary world. Its most affecting passages make the shimmering route across the sea feel like a place a child might truly find.