My Night in the Planetarium

This author is one of my favorites. My 5 year old loves this book.

I wanted to know more details about hiding in the museum and the author's father's dance and involvement in protest. But I guess that'd be too much for a picture book.

Perfect condition, great price, arrived fast! I'll buy from this seller again!

A beautifully-illustrated children's book that tells the story of an Indonesian boy's experience during the Suharto years when his father's drama troupe produced shows critical of the government. Highly recommended

I use this book in my classroom, and it is just a great book. so beautiful!

Freeman Awards – Winners 2016Children’s LiteratureMy Night in the Planetarium by Innosanto Nagara (Seven Stories Press)The Indonesian-born graphic designer, Innosanto Nagara, shares “a true story about a child, a play, and the act of resistance” in his award-winning autobiographical picture book. Starting with a lightly humorous overview of Indonesian history, through colonization by the Dutch, he leads up to 1977, a pivotal moment in his life, during the brutal rule of President Suharto. Nagara’s stunning illustrations depict a play performed in traditional Indonesian dance costumes created and performed by his father in which an unspecified army general is criticized. Police are sent to arrest his father and Innosanto and his mother flee from the production and hide in an adjacent planetarium. What could be a terrifying experience for a child becomes a night filled with the security of strong parental love and the magic of the stars. Nagara’s newest work, along with his earlier books, show the heroic potential of ordinary people and the power of art to challenge injustice.

I love all of Innosanto Nagara's kids' books, as does my daughter, who has grown up with them.... But THIS one is a different animal altogether: My Night in the Planetarium is a master work by a master storyteller. The illustrations are pitch-perfect and stunningly colored, as always with Nagara's books, but the true gem here is the story itself: a profound and poetic tale of a young boy forced into hiding with his family under the Indonesian dictatorship, told in a tone of retrospective wonder. The innocence of the child's world makes the awful political reality of the grownup world comprehensible and even intriguing. BEST KID'S BOOK of 2016!

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