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This is a compelling little book to introduce kids to our solar system and the universe. The illustrations are bright, colourful and quite dreamy. The explanations are brief and easy to understand for a young audience. A lovely book to familiarise children with this fascinating topic.

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Team Pluto! This book was a good story, and has educational tidbits, we are here for it! My kids really enjoyed this book, and the illustrations were excellent!

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First, I love the concept. Sadie is passionate about space, and she is taking the reader on an adventure through space in her homemade rocketship, where she teaches the reader all she knows about space.

The illustrations have a Magic School-bus vibe, and we really liked that. However, the facts on the pages that fall beyond the storyline are in a font, size, and color that is so challenging to read against the illustrations. I see the need to differentiate the storyline and the other space facts, but they need to be in some kind of bubble or box that enables the reader to better see them. Unfortunately, my preschooler lost interest about half-way through.

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This one gave me so much joy. As a science obsessed child, specifically, a space need, I loved this one. I loved how excited she got about learning about space. The story was fun and easy to follow. I loved the little space facts sprinkled along the way. What a wonderful story for the space obsessed or future astronaut in your life

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This was a fun, informative read about space with nice illustrations and tons of fun facts. Great for any fans of space travel, astronauts, or STEM. Thanks to NetGalley for the review.

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We liked reading this. The facts were fun and easy to understand. The side facts were kinda of hard to read electronically but they were interesting. The story without stopping for the facts flowed really well

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Sadie soars into space is a great adventure book for children to understand and learn more about the planets, moon, stars, and sun. I really enjoyed reading this book. I strongly recommend to the parents and teachers to use it for children In their home or class of science. It is easy to find all those things about our sky and space! Thanks for letting me see and read this book from NetGalley!

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What a cute book! I read it with my 4 and 7 year old boys. I loved that it rhymed and was easy to read. The little fun facts were a little hard to read on my kindle but my kids loved them and learned a lot. My kids loved the illustrations especially the cat.

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My six and three year old loved this book! They stayed engaged the whole time and the space facts stimulated a lot of conversation. The book was easy to read out loud and the storyline was cute and made sense. I like that you could skip the extra facts easily for younger kids. It wasn’t too wordy and simply explained some cool facts. My six year old said “That was so fun! My favorite part was when she left earth to visit the solar system.” She wanted to give it 5.5 stars. The illustrations are vibrant and they loved the little cat.

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Sadie Soars into Space is a children's book that I definitely would have loved as a kid. It follows Sadie and her adorable cat, exploring space including not only the solar system, but also more niche things (like the Oort Cloud) in an engaging way. I personally loved the story; it has a clear journey and wraps up nicely. It's informative in such a way that teaches kids about space while also ending on a note to stoke further curiosity. It seems like a great book for parents and teachers to read to their kids.

I LOVED the artwork. The style is adorable and fun, while following the cohesive space theme. The colors also make it really engaging, as do the rhymes, which are very well-done. However, the text for some of the facts was a bit hard to read accessibility-wise. Some of the blue text is placed on blue planets, and some of it is small. So the only suggestion I would make is more color contrast for the text and possibility making some of it bigger.

I think it's awesome that this was written by a NASA science communicator! This book is educational and uplifting with beautiful art that is sure to be loved by readers.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC for this book.

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My four kids and I had so much fun reading this book! The illustrations were beautiful and just adorable. We loved it!

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This space adventure book was absolutely adorable. My kids are now old enough to read their own books (10 and 13 years old), but I feel like even they could learn from this book. The illustrations are engaging and this would make for a lovely gift.

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Arezu Sarvestani’s Sadie Soars into Space is a captivating and educational book that combines a thrilling narrative with stunning illustrations. It inspires young readers to explore the wonders of space and pursue their dreams with enthusiasm and curiosity

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Unfortunately this was presented as a review copy with just the wrong formatting – the format chosen means you cannot zoom out to see the full page, and a chunk of text is missing. That choice or something else equally bad has also made the second 'voice' of the script, the smaller, fainter, more sciencey captions to everything, appear in entirely the wrong places so it clashes with the background image and is unreadable. Well done, publishers, for ruining what potentially was a fine little experience!

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Thank you so much to Z Kids and Netgalley for the ebook to read and review.

Sadie is an astronomer and she’s ready to explore all the planets, stars and the galaxy. I loved that she flew to space on her ship and took her cat, we got to explore everything with her. It was created in such a perfect way that it made you feel you were with her.

I loved seeing all the illustrations on each page of the planets and the stars, getting to lean so much by reading each page of it. I liked that we had the smaller print hidden on each page with more facts and then the bigger print for what Sadie was sharing, so creative.

This is a great book for anyone that already loves all things space, but also great for starting to teach and incorporate space into what your children or children around you are learning. It’s such an incredibly fun book to read, it’s full of educational facts and it’s really beautiful to look at. A great fun read for all, that you’ll want to read and look at again and again.

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This book is an absolute gem, with beautifully crafted illustrations that bring each page to life. The information is presented in a delightful and fun manner, making it a joy to read. It’s the perfect gift for friends with children—I’ll definitely be adding it to my gift list.

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"There's so much to explore in the great cosmic zoo full of mysteries and marvels-we're part of it too!

Sadie Soars into Space is a colorful and playful turn around the universe accompanied by Sadie (a female astronaut & her space cat.) Kids ask a lot of questions, and this book gives a detailed, but age appropriate explanation to those why’s in a fun sing-song phrasing. I also feel like in a very subtle way this book is telling children anyone can soar to space, and reach the stars and in the environmental climate we find ourselves in these are HUGE points that need to be ever present in a very organic way. I am defiantly going to be adding this beautiful book to my classroom for our space theme.

The only reason for the one less star had nothing to do with the writing and more so the flow of the physical book. As a teacher reading upside down and backwards, the flow of the written word on the page is important, and I found it difficult to read it with the way the words were spaced on the page. But that did not ruin the enjoyment or the discussion that followed from my little students, who REALLY loved the space cat!

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This book was so educational but in a way that children will remember. I love how the sentences rhymed and flowed very well. The illustrations of the solar system were so beautiful. The way they everything was described in detail was just amazing. I feel like children will love this book so much. I’m so grateful for having the opportunity to arc read this.

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Thank you, Z Kids, for the ARC.

This is such a wonderful fun way to teach kids as well as as for them to learn about the solar system!

They can act and play along with suitable study materials as shown in the book. The content is filled with visuals and it IS GOOD! Kudos to the author/ author for making this board book this fun and engaging!

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