A young space traveler discovers art painted millennia before by a
human being--just like him.
Our hero travels all alone on a spaceship, through the universe, past
galaxies, comets and planets to go visit his grandmother on Earth for
the summer holidays. She takes him to visit an ancient cave, where he
discovers handprints and drawings of unknown animals made by human
beings, just like him. To top off his wonderful holiday she gives him
mysterious objects which once belonged to his grandfather -- paper and
crayons. On the way home he draws what he saw on his travels -- to the
amazement of his fellow passengers.
Jairo Buitrago's thought-provoking story reminds us of what remains as
everything changes. Rafael Yockteng's fabulous art, a tribute to Stanley
Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, presents us a wonderful, diverse
future in which space travel is common, though knowledge of the past is
still a secret treasure to be discovered.
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language
Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to
demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or
digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or
plot.