The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home, a book 100% unique to you

The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home is the sequel of sorts to The Little Boy Who Lost His Name. In that book the child woke up and couldn’t find their name. They go to all manner of places finding letters that spell their name until at the very end they’ve spelled out-thus eventually finding their name. This book is similar, but is much more enjoyable that its predecessor for a number of reasons.

The illustrations in The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home are varied in color and topic. Some of the pages are full color with no edge, while others are broken up into two panels. Throughout the book the graphics are broken up into real photographs and illustrations. On the pages where the two are combined, this mixed medium works really well and provides an almost 3D appearance.

Readers also meet a good variety of aliens and animals as our protagonist (your child) travels through outer space exploring. The child is accompanied by Hubble, their robot friend who sometimes pilots the ship all the while with a cheese eating grin on his robot face.

The pair sees your child’s name in the stars and then crash lands on an alien planet. Thankfully they fix the plane and pilot their way to your house using real images from the closest metro area, close up satellite pictures of your neighborhood and even your house.

It’s kind of gimmicky, but it works. It works because the story in The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home stands on its own and is supplemented by the fact that the book is so personalized. The story is short enough to read as a good-night book and is not too wordy for a typical 5 year old. We read it with him; he recognizes his name and pretends his finger is a car as it goes through our neighborhood streets on the way to our house.

The pages in the book are thicker than average and would stand up against the treatment that a 3 year old would dish out. Come for the personalization, stay for the story. The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home is a book as unique as your child.