Many Moons is an American children's picture book written by James Thurber and illustrated by Louis Slobodkin.

[1][2] The book centers around a young girl, Princess Lenore, who becomes ill, and only one thing will make her better: the Moon.

The king asks the wisest men in his court how he can give his daughter the Moon, and becomes outraged when they all claim that it is too large, too far away, and composed of unstable or dangerous substances.

Agreeing to do so, the jester takes the princess's specifications to the royal goldsmith, who creates a necklace with a Moon-like pendant.

In 1972 an audio version was released by Caedmon Records, read by Peter Ustinov with music by Edgar Summerlin.