i want to be an astronaut

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” This, of course, is a question anyone who has mastered childhood is familiar with. Kane Miller’s fun board book, I Want to Be an Astronaut (written by Ruby Brown and Alisa Coburn), brings a touch of imagination and creativity to this oh-so-familiar question.
 
Two kids, a boy and a girl, take turns daydreaming about what they might want to be when they grow up. On the first page of the book, we find them sitting in their living room with a cardboard box, scissors, and tape. On each subsequent page, one of the kids is in a new landscape – driving around a seaside bend, swinging over a crocodile-filled swamp, flying over a volcano in a hot air balloon – as they imagine a different vocation.
 
I’m a big fan of books that encourage (or even teach) imaginative play, so this book is a winner for me! It suggests thinking outside of the box, but it does so with that focus on dreaming about the future, not pushing to get there today. The story ends back in the living room, where the cardboard box is now adorned with paper plates and strips of tape, with cardboard cuttings strewn around the floor. The narration finishes, “I can be any of these things when I grow up. But I don’t need to decide just yet. I can just dream of having big adventures.”
 
It’s that book that suggests open windows for the future by encouraging creative play today.

Book benefits:

• Story playfully encourages kids to imagine big futures.
• Text is simple and direct, appropriate for read-alouds or for young readers to practice new words.
• Sturdy board book pages will withstand re-readings from toddlers, their big siblings, and their little siblings.

Buy I Want to Be an Astronaut here! ($8.99, board book)

• Want more? Order a copy of I Want to Be a Lion Tamer, too! ($8.99, board book)

 
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