Luna Mooney dreams about the moon — and then, one night, she goes.
What she finds is not what she was told. The moon is not made of cheese; that turns out to be a rumor. But there is a man living up there, and there are the moonlits, small creatures who are glad to see her. Luna stays long enough to watch the moon rise and to celebrate it with them, the way you celebrate something you have only ever looked at from far below.
Then she wakes up, safe in her own bed, holding a piece of cheese.
It is a bedtime story about wanting to know what is up there, and about the good kind of being wrong. For the kid who asks one more question instead of going to sleep. For the one who already has opinions about space.
Tracie is a visual and performing artist and has been throughout the country and overseas working in the arts. She currently lives in New York City and is originally from the small town of Wintersville, Ohio near the border of the state, which she describes as Steeler Country.
She is a Congressional Arts Caucus Award recipient, and had one of her paintings displayed in the US Capitol Building as part of a one-year collection. She is a graduate of Chatham University, where she studied Arts Management with a concentration in Visual Art and Art History. She is also a veteran of the United States Navy, where she was a mechanic on the flight line based in Northern Japan.
Her professional visual art credits include murals and décor for many restaurants throughout the country including in Rainforest Cafés, Landry’s, Joes Crab Shack, and along the Keemah Boardwalk near Galveston, Texas. She has been part of the team at Spaeth Design, where she helped create and build the Christmas windows for Macy’s in New York City as well as those for Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue. She also worked for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission helping to restore artifacts for the museums of Pennsylvania. As a performer she has appeared on television and the silver screen as well tours entertaining the troops overseas in Korea, Kuwait and Iraq.

