Space · Wonder · Losing things
The Moon Has a Lost and Found
Everything you've ever lost ends up in one crater.
- Age range
- Ages 4-8
- Reading time
- 6 minutes
- Category
- Space stories
What happens
A child who has lost a very specific sock discovers that the moon keeps a lost and found in a shallow crater. The keeper is helpful, extremely slow, and asks one question that turns out to matter more than the sock.
Read the opening
Listen to this story
The moon, it turns out, has a lost and found. It is in a shallow crater on the side we never see, which explains a great deal.
Ravi arrived there in a dream that felt suspiciously like not-a-dream, and found a keeper sorting mittens into piles by color.
"Name of item?" said the keeper, without looking up. "One sock," said Ravi. "Gray, with a stripe. It's the left one." The keeper wrote this down very slowly. "And is the sock," she said, "the thing you actually came for?"
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Why this one is worth your time
- A soft way into losing a comfort object, before the day it actually happens.
- Introduces the far side of the moon and tidal locking without a single fact-block.
- Dreamlike pacing works well as a wind-down story.
Talk about it afterward
- What would you look for in the lost and found?
- Why do you think the keeper asked her question?
What if your child were the hero?