To the Moon and Back for You

by Emilia Bechrakis Serhant

Overview

A perfect gift for any parent who has struggled on their journey to have a baby, Million Dollar Listing star Emilia Bechrakis Serhant's debut picture book poignantly explores her own difficulty conceiving and her life-changing experiences with IVF.

I swam through the deepest ocean.
I climbed the tallest mountain.
Finding you was a journey.
And meeting you was my greatest joy.

In this picture book, illustrated by the #1 New York Times bestselling artist of A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, families of different shapes, colors, and sizes must cross deserts, navigate rough seasons, and climb mountains—all to find their miracle babies. Emilia's story reminds us that, despite the challenges and complications often thrown our way, hope will always prevail. To the Moon and Back for You combines a timeless feel with a timely subject, and is poised to become a modern classic for years to come.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593379424
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	03/22/2022
Pages:	28
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.74(d)
Lexile:	AD430L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Emilia Bechrakis Serhant is an international attorney living in New York City with her husband, Ryan Serhant, of the Emmy-nominated show Million Dollar Listing New York, which airs on the Bravo channel. She holds three law degrees from top UK universities. She followed her husband into the world of reality TV and real estate. She currently enjoys devoting time to the family real estate business as well as several children's charities and raising her daugher, Zena.

EG Keller is the illustrator of the New York Times #1 bestseller Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, as well as the picture book His Royal Dogness, Guy the Beagle: The Rebarkable True Story of Meghan Markle's Rescue Dog. As Gerald Kelley, he illustrated Ken Burns' NYT bestselling book Grover Cleveland, Again!, and wrote and illustrated the picture book Please Please the Bees. Keller lives in Colorado with his husband.

Editorial Reviews

A poetic ode to women who became mothers despite the challenges they faced.—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2019-12-22
A poetic ode to women who became mothers despite the challenges they faced.

Whether navigating the roughest seas, crossing the hottest deserts, or pushing through painful brambles, the mothers in this book know their long, hard journeys were worth the effort. There might have been failure and doubt, but now that it's all over, they know they'd "do it all over again. For you." First-person narration expresses in metaphor the extraordinary lengths some mothers will go to achieve their dream of holding a child in their arms. Sentimental and flowery, the text is broad enough to apply to the journeys of many mothers—even though the text is gender neutral, the illustrations clearly center the mother's experience. At times another figure, often male-presenting, is shown alongside a mother. Soft, jewel-toned illustrations peppered with textures depict families with a variety of skin tones and hair colors/textures. The assortment of mothers shown demonstrates the universality of the message, but it also contributes to the absence of a strong visual throughline. In the concluding author's note, Serhant shares her personal struggle to conceive her child, which included fertility treatments and IVF. Ultimately, although the sentiment is lovely, the message is too abstract to be understood by children and will be better received and appreciated by parents.

Though it looks like a book for longed-for children, it's really for their parents. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews