Description: "Come along on a space adventure to discover fun facts about satellites and how and why they are floating around in space!"--
Brief description:
Jessica Taylor enjoys discovering new things, that's why she became a scientist. She grew up outside of Tampa, FL, the lightning capital of the world. Watching storms inspired her to study meteorology. She loves learning so much she also got degrees in finance and education. Now she lives in Virginia with her husband and two daughters. The family watches and observes the clouds together. Jessica hopes her first children's book inspires young scientists to observe and ask questions about how technology helps us better understand our world.
Review Quotes:
For young readers with lots of questions about satellites, this book has many of the answers. Taylor responds to an imaginary reader with thorough replies scaled to inform but not overwhelm or discourage. Bassani's illustrations are styled like a notebook and paper-collage pages. Detailed and fun, the artwork creates playful visuals to the questions Taylor poses. In response to "How do scientists fix satellites? Do they send space handy workers?" Bassani provides a literal interpretation of workers floating in space, fixing a satellite. The text explains why that scenario wouldn't work and how scientists do actually service satellites. This sort of engagement between the text and the artwork might encourage young readers to ask even more questions--even questions that seem silly! VERDICT In very few pages, author and illustrator collaborate to encourage children to pursue answers, no matter how trivial, and have fun while doing it. For larger collections.
--School Library Journal