What strange people live in a huge skyscraper! For example, Mabel from the 29th floor suddenly calls herself Molly, and her brother always walks around with a paper bag on his head. Clara's poodle is even sure that he can fly! But the strangest of all is the boy Paul from the basement apartment: Paul thinks that the Moon is not the Moon at all, but a hole in the sky. I wonder if this is a stupid idea or, on the contrary, a genius one?

Paul shuddered: there it is! The sky! Everything is just as he dreamed of in his most beautiful dreams. He pressed his face and hands to the cool glass. Did it all happen? Was he touching the sky?

David Almond, winner of the Andersen Prize, is a recommended reading aloud in primary schools in Britain. And if you read it aloud at home, parents will have a lot of fun too.