The Comet
Age 3+
Picture Storybooks
The beautiful and thought-provoking new book from the award-winning, internationally best-selling picture book creator Joe Todd Stanton.
When Nyla has to leave her home in the countryside to start life again in the city, all she can think about is everything she misses from before. So when a comet comes crashing through the city streets and starts glow and grow, Nyla can’t resist a chance to head somewhere that feels closer to what she had before … but what starts as an escape could be just the thing to make her finally feel at home.
A picture book touching on the stress and pain of moving house and how this affects our relationships and sense of belonging, but also how it can open us up to new experiences – seeing that although we might have to leave places we love behind; they never really leave us. We’ll always have them in our memories and in the ability to make new ones.
Winner of the Yoto Carnegie 2023 Shadowers’ Choice Medal for Illustration
Creators
Joe Todd-Stanton is from Brighton and grew up drawing with his mum. He studied Illustration at University of the West of England, afterwards moving to London where he currently resides. His children’s book, The Secret of Black Rock, won the 2018 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and since then he has written and illustrated seven books with Flying Eye.
Reviews
A breathtakingly intricate picture book with so much to discover on every page.
Briony May Smith
A lovely story to share with anyone who is struggling to find comfort in a new situation.
School Library Journal
A luminously beautiful picture book, full of bittersweet farewell feelings, about learning to welcome the new.
The Guardian
The Comet is a deep and touching picture book about the difficulties of moving house and how this affects our relationships, but also how it can open us up to new experiences. Although we might have to leave places we love behind, they never really leave us. We always have them in our memories and in the ability to make new ones.
Blog of Dad
The Comet is an incredible book with phenomenal illustrations about home and belonging. Emotive and wonderful, deep and poignant, The Comet is a wonderful triumph of a story.
Kids Book Review
