From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2–Collicutt's colorful book is at once an easy reader, a concept book, and a space primer. Introducing all types of rockets while comparing them as opposites, it will find many uses–and many readers. Space enthusiasts will be able to manage the simple text and garner even more information from the detailed end pages, which feature rocket history and a description of the
Apollo 11 mission. Vehicle-obsessed youngsters will enjoy the book as well, especially the last page, which features a full-spread blast-off. The realistic paintings, done in a palette of saturated primary colors, will delight young readers. Add this title to Collicutt's
This Truck (2004),
This Car (2002),
This Boat (2001),
This Plane (2000), and
This Train (1999, all Farrar) for a complete unit on transportation.
–Angela J. Reynolds, Annapolis Valley Regional Library, Bridgetown, NS, Canada Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PreS-Gr. 2. Kids who are space crazy will pore over the many different rockets that fill the horizontal pages of this compact picture book. Using a format similar to that of
This Plane (2000)
and
This Boat (2004), Collicutt gives each rocket or spacecraft one line of description under an intriguing, brightly colored picture. Some rockets travel by day, and some by night. A rocket can be carried under a plane or on top of a truck. Occasionally the text isn't clear. For instance, is the rocket that's like a train actually a bullet train? If not, what is it? The front matter, a two-page spread picturing and naming some particular rockets, might have been used to amplify some of the more generic rockets in the text. The back matter is an intriguing two-page spread of the Apollo 11 Mission, focusing on the rocketry system. This spans a fairly wide age range, with more to look at and learn as the reader grows older.
Ilene CooperCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
