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Summary
From bestsellers Rachel Bright and Nadia Shireen comes a charming picture book about a snail determined to beat the odds and achieve her dream of being the first snail in space.
Gail is not an average snail. Snails are small and slow, but Gail wants to blaze a different trail. "Be brave! Be bold!" she likes to say as she studies to be the first snail in space. It's a long, hard journey, but Gail stays tough and strong. Can she follow her heart all the way to the moon?
Author Notes
Rachel Bright is a writer, illustrator, printmaker, and entrepreneur. She founded an award-winning stationery company called The Bright Side. It sold over 2 million cards in ite first few years and also now includes gift wrap and home ware. This stationery line can be found in places such as John Lewis, Waitrose, Selfridges and Paperchase, as well as in many independent outlets across the UK.
It was at Kingston University that Rachel Bright trained in Graphics and won prizes for her typography, followed by an MA in Printmaking at UWE. Her striking illustrative style, using a mix of reclaimed type and etching coupled with her witty stories create uniquely entertaining picture books. Her titles include Mine, What Does Daddy Do? and My Sister is an Alien. In 2014, her title Love Monster made The New York Times Best Seller List.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (1)
Kirkus Review
The travails of the first mollusk on the moon. Gail the snail stands out from the rest, as the bright color-block art makes clear. Unlike the other identical snails, Gail has a spotted shell, her body is dark, her eyes are red-rimmed, and her mouth is a tiny expressive curve. "She sets her stalks on stuff that's big," her ambitions represented by her "Gail Was Here!" flag. She perseveres through challenges--making her way up hills and through rain--and uncertainty. She arrives at Space-Camp, studies diligently, and passes a "SPACE-FIT TEST." Finally, climbing the ladder into a standard-issue spaceship, she slips and falls. Upside down on her shell, she replays her critics' comments ("Give up! Stay safe"), but her heart tells her to go on, so she does. After her triumph, sporting flashy red eyeglasses, she hits the lecture circuit with a lesson: "If you've tried, you cannot fail." It's a well-meaning conclusion that might discourage kids who encounter failure when trying something new; after all, grit alone is no guarantee of success. And conversely, Gail's final advice--"Believe you can…and then you will"--glosses over all the effort she expended along the way. These promises of assured achievement ring false. An amusing but oversold endorsement of persistence. (Picture book. 4-8) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.