Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Louie's spaceship is made of junk, but all the kids want to go for a ride, in this imaginative adventure. A Reading Rainbow selection. Ages 5-9. (August) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Junk?"" says Louie's junkman foster-father Barney, told that the kids have been teasing Louie. ""They should know better than to call this junk. All a person needs is some imagination! And a little of that stuff can take you right out of this world."" So he builds a sort-of space capsule, labeled IMAGINATION I; Louie and Susie climb aboard; and ""way out in space"" they encounter Ziggie and Ruthie, in a junked bathtub (""We decided to follow you""), and have a run-in with some monster rocks. . . before returning home, where all the kids are ready, now, ""to take off."" That blatant recourse to ""imagination"" (or IMAGINATION I) isn't very imaginative, and the whole junk-is-what-you-make-of-it angle is pretty trite too; but the phantasmagoric outer-space collages--the kids and their impromptu space vehicles whirling through elements from NASA-type space photos--makes this a visual extravaganza akin to the small-screen and large-screen space spectaculars. Given Louie's solid in with kids, most of them will at least want to have a look: when the monster rocks are careening about, especially, there's a three-dimensional, trompe l'oeil quality that's never been known to fail. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Review by Kirkus Book Review
