Goodnight, Astronaut
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
The second picture book from astronaut Scott Kelly follows his adventure-seeking travels through some of the wild places he's slept! Young readers will be delighted by the playful text and encouraging message to dream of the stars.
As an astronaut, Scott Kelly is one of the few people who know what it's like to sleep in space. But that's not the only unusual place he's slept! As a child, he slept in treehouses, boats and tents, but his thrill-seeking nature has led to him snatching shuteye in every place imaginable. From the bottom of the ocean, to Mount Everest Base Camp, to the International Space Station, Scott will send readers to sleep dreaming of exploring the wildest places.
This sweet and adventurous story is the perfect bedtime tale for future astronauts and adventurers!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kelly's second picture book starts as a memoir and ends as a motivational treatise. He begins in his childhood bedroom and backyard, where he and his identical twin play at being astronauts, then moves to his growing independence as a teenager, his Navy service, and his rigorous astronaut training. The storytelling strives to create an arc by connecting the many sleeping places that Kelly has occupied throughout his adventurous life, a final page landing readers in the bedroom of another child dreaming of an interstellar career. But text that's overly assumptive about readers' familiarity with Kelly muddles this interesting life's trajectory. Burton's cheery digital cartooning provides narrative ballast, grounding the story in a counterbalancing realism. Ages 3–7.
