Book Review: Pluto’s Perfect Place by John Cline
Disclaimer: I won this book in a giveaway sponsored by Macrolit for the purpose of reviewing it. No other compensation was offered or requested.
Pluto (the dwarf planet) is dismissed by the other entities in the Solar System because he is so small and very far from the center. But when a shooting star goes astray, his remote location allows him to bring it home.
This is a simple children’s picture book, perhaps first or second grade level. It’s a short read, good for a quick bedtime story. Each page has a few rhyming lines, with a full illustration.
Good: The lesson of the story is sweet and worthwhile, and there’s some decent rhymes.
Less good: The art for the personified celestial objects is adequate to kind of creepy. Even though the theme of the book works on knowledge of real-life astronomy, there’s little to no actual science in the book.
Overall: This is a cute book, and might be worth getting at the library for a one-time read, but I’d recommend also picking up a children’s book on actual planetary astronomy to spark an interest in space science as a followup.
