Published By: Walker
Pages: 224
Released On: 05/06/2025
Reading Age: 9-12
When alien “Sky” creates planet Earth as part of a school project, she’s delighted by her success. Those dinosaurs roaming about the place are top-mark material! Then humans sweep in and it’s farewell dinosaurs, hello destruction. This disappointing evolutionary twist calls for drastic measures: Sky, the laziest student in class, is going to have make an effort, go down to Earth and fix humanity…
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Thanks to NetGalley and Walker for the advanced copy of this title in return for an honest review.
This sounded like such a fun book and I was super excited to get to read it – even if I am a lot older than the recommended reading age.
I really loved the illustrations by Fred Blunt, they were run and really helped add something to the story.
It wasn’t quite what I was expecting if I’m honest. It was fun and interesting but it felt like it was lacking something. I can’t really explain what, but I felt there was something just out of reach to make it a really enjoyable read.
It’s clearly a commentary on the political landscape, and what we’re doing to the planet, but I felt it was neither one thing nor another. It’s not a ram-it-down-your-throat preachy kind of book, but nor does it have a light touch, it felt like it was stuck somewhere in between.
Yes it is a bit of fun, but there’s a deeper meaning to this book than just fun. It’s about friendship and community and showing that humanity isn’t all bad.
I did find it a bit disappointing but it did get better as it went along. I love reading kids books, in fact some of my best reading experiences as an adult have been with kids books because I feel they can transcend age groups and you get different things out of it. But I think this is one book that is better in younger hands. They probably won’t take things as seriously or look at things as deeply as I did, and will just enjoy it for what it was.
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