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aholeistodig's review against another edition
4.0
Fascinating, quick, picture-book look at a typical meteorite's journey, from "hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, in deep, dark, cold outer space," to the exhibit at the museum. Fun, painterly illustrations and a little speech-bubble dialog here and there ("Who threw this rock?") would make this a pretty accessible readaloud for early grades, and as the story progresses, we get a cumulative Old-Lady-Who-Swallowed-A-Fly refrain, retracing the steps of the journey. LOVE the double-page spread of the moment of impact. "HSSSSS BOOM BANG! CRASH!"
rdyourbookcase's review against another edition
3.0
A fun way to show the steps it takes to get an artifact into a museum.
beecheralyson's review against another edition
3.0
I had mixed feelings on this one. I liked the information about meteorites but not sure how I felt about the "House that Jack Built" type format used.
beecheralyson's review
3.0
I had mixed feelings on this one. I liked the information about meteorites but not sure how I felt about the "House that Jack Built" type format used.
stephanienicole's review
3.0
2.5 stars
The title sums it up: This is the story of how a meteorite gets to a museum. The story is told in a repetitive style - A happens, A+B happens, A+B+C happens, etc. - like the song "The Twelve Day of Christmas." I generally hate that storytelling style, but the one place I think it could work is in a children's story meant to teach something to help kids remember. Yet, I don't think it works here. Some of the plot points are vital steps of how the meteorite gets to the museum, but some of them are nonsense, like a dog barking at the meteor or a cosmologist explaining physics, which isn't really a step in how the meteorite got to the museum. I found the idea of repeating the dog barking over and over again to take up precious storytelling space when other important steps aren't explored in detail (I mean I'm still really curious how firefighters contacted a geologist). The book's saving grace: the artwork is stunning.
Tuning into my inner child, I think Little Stephanie would have been drawn to this book's premise and art (as Adult Stephanie was), but Little Stephanie wouldn't have found the story engaging either.
The title sums it up: This is the story of how a meteorite gets to a museum. The story is told in a repetitive style - A happens, A+B happens, A+B+C happens, etc. - like the song "The Twelve Day of Christmas." I generally hate that storytelling style, but the one place I think it could work is in a children's story meant to teach something to help kids remember. Yet, I don't think it works here. Some of the plot points are vital steps of how the meteorite gets to the museum, but some of them are nonsense, like a dog barking at the meteor or a cosmologist explaining physics, which isn't really a step in how the meteorite got to the museum. I found the idea of repeating the dog barking over and over again to take up precious storytelling space when other important steps aren't explored in detail (I mean I'm still really curious how firefighters contacted a geologist). The book's saving grace: the artwork is stunning.
Tuning into my inner child, I think Little Stephanie would have been drawn to this book's premise and art (as Adult Stephanie was), but Little Stephanie wouldn't have found the story engaging either.
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