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Headed to the Moon

Rocket Beams, Lunar Dreams by Chiara Colombi

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Rocket Beams, Lunar Dreams by Chiara Colombi and illustrated by Scott Magoon is due in February 2025. However, I am glad I had the opportunity to read via an online reader’s copy. The book’s theme is not new, but told in a way that even I learned a few things and I am terribly excited to put this on teacher and parent radars. The idea is about envy and jealousy. Rocket is ready to go to the moon. She can’t wait! Except at the last […]

It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science. Contact is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.

Solaris by Stanisław Lem

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You are doing all you can to stay human in an inhuman situation. Noble it may be, but it isn’t going to get you anywhere. And I’m not so sure about it being noble – not if it’s idiotic at the same time. ― Stanisław Lem, Solaris It’s what we wanted: contact with another civilization. We have it, this contact! Our own monstrous ugliness, our own buffoonery and shame, magnified as if it was under a microscope! ― Stanisław Lem, Solaris Kelvin is finally on […]

Stay curious my friend

We, the Curious Ones by Marion Dane Bauer

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The story We, the Curious Ones is a poetic look at how science was born. Well, that is how I interpret Marion Dane Bauer’s book (due early November 2023). The ways we start to look at the world changes as we gain knowledge from those who dared to question the norm. We realize things such as we are not the center of the universe, but a part of one. And other factual pieces of information we take for granted today. Mostly the story is straightforward, […]

Hi ho off to Mars we go

Ready, Set, Mars by Katie Jaffe

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I have a confession. I had read Ready, Set, Mars several days before writing my review. I had a draft saved (drafts are done to sort out ideas) and it was saved as Mars. Um… Mars? What was that book? It was Katie Jaffe and Jennifer Lawson’s picture book due in late August 2023. I needed to start again, this time browsing the text and focusing on the art. It came back to me, and I was thinking that I remembered it, and why I […]

Peanuts fans across the galaxy

Snoopy Soars to Space: Peanuts Graphic Novels by Charles M. Schulz

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The older I get the more I realize, The Peanuts comic is not always (or really) for kids. They have some terribly adult humor (Snoopy dresses as Lucy to show how tough and mean he can me), the characters are mean, themes are mature in some areas, and frankly, Snoopy? Not the loveable pup I remember as a kid. With that said, today’s kids can deal with more than I could and can. And they will be fine with Snoopy Soars to Space: Peanuts Graphic […]

Imagination & Play Andrew’s way

Up Where the Stars Are (Andrew's Adventures in Nature by Ryan Jacobson

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I started reading this on Edelweiss online. It was a medium sized sample, but I think I got enough to know that I enjoyed this book and when it comes out, I want to see more of Up Where the Stars Are (Andrew’s Adventures in Nature). The story is centered around Andrew, a young man with special needs. His situation is not the focus, or what he cannot do, but what he can do. The part of the story I was able to read was […]



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