Nova's Ark

Rating:
Summary: Impossible to keep your hands off
Review: What a gorgeous book! It demands that you reach out and touch it, turn the pages, and look, over and over again. Each page has so much visual material that it will take a long time before this book becomes too familiar. You're not necessarily going to catch the diaper on the baby robot the first or second time through, but these touches make it wonderful for children whether they can read or not. In fact, the main problem in reading it aloud is getting them to let you turn the page. I would recommend this book for any child. Two minor caveats: The story is not up to the illustrations, but very few stories could be, and it's enough to give the illustrations meaning; and one page has white text superimposed on a full-page illustration, which makes for hard reading, especially in less than perfect light.