It’s neat how certain pages have a circle cutout so when you flip the page it is linked to the theme or object on the next page. It brings a feeling of wonder and surprise to the following page. I love how one of the poems is designed as a spiral. You have to continually turn the book in circles to read the words. I not only enjoyed the rhyming on each page as well as the beautiful bright watercolors, but I enjoyed learning about a lot of interesting facts about the universe. The page numbers are only located on the left-hand side of the left pages in the middle. It gives the effect of looking like small indents to an index. There are also glimpses of real photos within a few of the paintings. For example, when they painted the picture of the earth on different parts of the land or water they zoomed in and placed a picture of an animal that lived in that area to show there was life on that planet. There is also a galactic glossary in the back that adds some additional information to the galaxy and its planets. This is a wonderful book for children to have fun with while learning about space. The illustrations are really what completed this book. Each page has something new and exciting to look at and learn about. I like the wide range of shapes he used and labeled each shape on the galaxy page. It included shapes and titles such as barred, barred spiral, elliptical, egg shaped, spiral, flattened, ball shaped, and irregular. It’s great that they provide options for further reading so students who maybe want more information about space but not necessarily in poem format can use these resources available. I also noticed that the copyright information was in the back as well. I actual think it works great with the author deciding to do that because it looked really neat with how he jumped right into the book at the beginning making the first illustrations really stand out.
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