And then there was the time he found himself on a rocket hurtling through space without knowing how to get it back. The time he almost got away with driving a car out of a dealership. There was the time he was the only kid tall enough to ride the roller coaster, which in turn led to him getting free rides (and freaking out his dad).

Liam’s a pretty good kid, but looking like a grown-up has gotten him into sticky situations. What happens when a twelve-year-old boy goes through such a growth spurt that he looks like he’s thirty? Well, in the case of Liam, inadvertent space travel. And if it has, we’re one step closer to having a space-based chapter book that everyone can enjoy. Because by then Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce should hopefully have found its readership.

But let me call you back in fifteen years and maybe your answer will be different. But how many of them are classics? How many of them are memorable? How many could you tell to the person on the street and get a spark of recognition in return? For now, none. Oh, there are tons of books where kids go to space, sure. Where are the books about kids in space that have remained within the public consciousness? Fact of the matter is, there aren’t any. The kind we blasted into in the 1960s and then never returned to. What’s that? You can’t think of any significant children’s books that took place in space? Would The Little Prince count? I guess so, but that’s not really the kind of space I mean. Now just pluck out for me the ones that took place in outer space. The ones that encouraged you to consider the world around you. The ones you still think about sometimes. Think about the books you read when you were a child. Walden Pond Press (an imprint of Harper Collins)Ĭlose your eyes.

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