{"id":32861,"date":"2018-09-30T23:19:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T03:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=32861"},"modified":"2021-08-19T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:23:23","slug":"review-of-life-on-mars-by-jon-agee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=32861","title":{"rendered":"Review of Life on Mars, by Jon Agee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/life_on_mars_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/life_on_mars_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35424\" \/><\/a><em>Life on Mars<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Jon Agee<\/p>\n<p>Dial Books for Young Readers, 2017.  32 pages.<\/p>\n<p>I love the silliness that comes from the mind of Jon Agee.  In his latest picture book, a boy has come to Mars to find life.  He\u2019s bearing a gift of chocolate cupcakes.  He\u2019s sure there\u2019s life on Mars, even though other people don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n<p>But alas!  All he finds when he looks around are rocks and dirt.  There\u2019s no life on Mars after all!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, children will see the large monster-shaped Martian following the kid around.  The boy even climbs on \u201cthis mountain\u201d (the creature\u2019s belly) to find where he left his spaceship.<\/p>\n<p>When the kid gets back in the spaceship headed home, he decides he deserves a treat.  But who ate the chocolate cupcakes?<\/p>\n<p>This is a child\u2019s first taste of an unreliable narrator, and they\u2019ll love knowing what he doesn\u2019t.  It\u2019s an exercise in perspective, too, as you can talk about why the boy doesn\u2019t see the Martian, but we do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonagee.com\/\">jonagee.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/children\/\">penguin.com\/children<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0399538526\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/life_on_mars.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/life_on_mars.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life on Mars by Jon Agee Dial Books for Young Readers, 2017. 32 pages. I love the silliness that comes from the mind of Jon Agee. In his latest picture book, a boy has come to Mars to find life. He\u2019s bearing a gift of chocolate cupcakes. He\u2019s sure there\u2019s life on Mars, even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delightfully-silly","category-picture-book-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39873,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32861\/revisions\/39873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}