Space Boy |  | Author: Leo Landry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
List Price: $16.00
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 39061
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0618605681
EAN: 9780618605682
ASIN: 0618605681
Publication Date: September 24, 2007
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Product Description
This world, decides Nicholas, is too noisy for him. Time to take a trip. He packs a snack, puts on his suit, and takes off . . . to the utterly quiet craters and vast deserts of the distant moon. In this utterly charming picture book, the allure of space travel and the longing for peace and quiet entice a young boy to take his space rocket to the moon for a picnic. |
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 dont buy the book October 13, 2009
William Parjon (Israel)
please dont buy this book , a few words without any thing that give or teach somethings
 A thoughtful and funny bedtime story May 31, 2009
jeremy newt (Old Orchard Beach, Maine)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a whimsical and gentle story illustrated with simple, childlike drawings. A thoughtful and funny bedtime story from a child's point of view, true to every little kid's way of thinking. I love how it so matter-of-factly moves between Nicolas' reality and his imagination. Or maybe it's all real? :)
 Sweet and fun November 14, 2007
Emily Dickinson (Chicago, IL USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My 6 year old son is really into astronauts and space and loves this book. It is a perfect bedtime story about a little boy who has to go to bed but it is too noisy in his house so he gets in his rocket and takes off for the moon for a little peace and quiet. He has a picnic while there and by the time he returns it is all quiet in his house and he is ready to go to bed. It is a sweet, nice book with wonderful illustrations. I highly recommend this book for anyone with a little boy with an imagination and thinks it would be cool to go to the moon.
No four-year-old is an island October 19, 2007
Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com (...in Middle America)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A cute story about a little boy who finds himself irritated by all the noise at home when he's trying to go to sleep. He zooms off to the moon to get away from the bog barking, the baby crying, the beeping cars and whatnot. The moon is quiet, but lonely, so he zooms back again, just in time to say goodnight to his parents. The fantasy element is nice, with the same sort of surrealistic silliness as Crockett Johnson's classic "Purple Crayon" books, although the story somehow isn't as satisfying as it might have been. Worth checking out, especially if you have a future astronaut in your house. (ReadThatAgain!)
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