Once Upon a Space-Time!

I like Jeffrey Brown’s work aimed toward an adult audience, but I decided to give this YA book a shot. It’s very cute and I think would give young people some insight on some scientific concepts.

Good

Loved the Andy Neanderthal book series with my son. Read them together multiple times. Great mix of fun, history and science. Excited for this new title with similarly drawn characters, but so disappointed that sooooooo much text seemed crammed onto the pages. Too visually chaotic for my boy with visual processing issues. Sad since graphic novels are his only way to really access age appropriate content as a 5th grader that doesn’t make him feel like he’s reading something “babyish”. Wish you could redesign the layout to make the text more readable and thus accessible.

Review by 10-year old:Petra and Jide, two human kids living in the future, are headed into space with Tobey, an alien whose world is full of Tobey clones, and Commander G, an advanced astronaut who is known to do cool things. Petra and Jide’s friends, Narleen, Spencer, and Jens, work in mission control. As Petra and Jide explore through space, they meet other alien kids, float in zero gravity, and try to stop some annoying adult astronauts from trying to replace the child astronauts. Will Petra, Jide, and their friends succeed in stopping the selfish adults from boarding the spaceship?This book is a good read and a funny read! Tobey is silly, and I like how silly it is to have a spaceship called the POTATO, even though its an acronym. I like how this book has humor and is educational about science. My favorite character is Petra, even though she hates vegetables. But otherwise, I like all the good characters. I recommend this book to anyone who likes space, science fiction, and humor.