This classic stop motion film was made in the UK in the early 2000s and used by the British Film Institute as part of their Starting Stories resource. A simple visual narrative is embedded with a complex set of themes: a baboon, stationed on the Moon, plays his trumpet mournfully as he looks at Earth from afar. The strength of this philosophical and affective film is its potential for discourse in numerous directions: the displacement of the baboon creates an opportunity to consider deforestation; the space setting provides a sense of universality to the themes of home, homelessness, and nostalgia; and the placement of a baboon on the Moon narrates the real-life use of animals in space travel in the twentieth century. This multifaceted way of considering home indicates a high usability in every age group: out of all books and films in the corpus, this film is highlighted for use with 4-7 year olds, 8-11 year olds, 12-15 year olds.
