BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Twin boys want to be astronauts, they have lots of adventures together and apart, even after they grow up: sleeping outside in their treehouse, taking a family cruise when they were teens, camping solo, surviving the icy woods together and much more, eventually becoming astronauts.
I felt like I was missing a bunch of background knowledge. The stories about all the places they slept felt disconnected - was that how they trained to be an astronaut? Was it about 1 boy or 2, I had trouble keeping track of who was doing what. I don't think this would hold a kid's interest. The narrative looks like poetry but is prose. The illustrations are well done, but without the text to really support the book . . it just doesn't work for me.
Lisa Librarian
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