See You in the Cosmos is written as a series of recordings, made by Alex Petroski, emulating his hero, Carl Sagan, who sent the Golden Record into space. The story follows Alex as he first treks to a rocket convention, and then home (via a circuitous route), finding new friends and family along the way. 

I genuinely don't know how to describe this book. It's a wonderful read, though very emotional, and made even more so by dint of being from Alex's point of view. There were several parts which had me near tears. It may be marketed as a middle grade book, but I think that it's one everyone can read and enjoy. 

The characters are also amazing, and I loved every single one of them. They're wonderfully flawed human, and best of all, they're realistic. On occasion, I feel like books aimed at younger children try to simplify things overly, but this book didn't have that problem. It has discussions about love, and family, and even touches on mental illnesses. 

I really just don't know how to put into words just how much I loved this book. Everything about it was brilliant, and undoubtedly I'll be going back to it over and over to reread. It's gone straight onto my favourites list, and you can bet I'll be telling everyone to read it once it's out.

A Space Geek Kid with his Dog Carl Sagan explores a series of events eventually leading to a kind of ending that makes the readers feel happy and appreciable for the life they had through this 320 page Novel. 

Normally I prefer Nonfiction over Fiction with an exception when it is science based or inspired. And this book is my first YA kind, at first the cover impressed me and after reading the description, i felt confident enough to try it and I'm glad i did it. It's very different from the conventional varieties of it. I could feel some pretty inspirations from as a pretty much enthusiasm from Carl Sagan, Antoine de saint exupery, Elon Musk and many oblivious people.

The story went real nice that i felt confident enough about the well-being of the characters right from the beginning even though some odds are thrown by the author for the suspense. The background of the characters and events are so rich in experience and provided so much easiness in reading

However I felt the experience was richer in the first half of the book. The kid, Alex Petrovski "recording the events in his ipod" style narration is very very nice to read and considerably affected by the kid's perspective of Innocent wisdom.  The philosophical - inferential part deserves much appreciation referring the contexts of science as a sheer source of spirituality. Not much science in the plot, only the philosophical understandings from sentient perspective. So people with diverse interests can find it comfortable to read especially people who don't give a thing about science.

Overall it's the kind of book which you can gift to your middle grade kids and shall also be read by yourselves for pretty much soothing and relaxing break time read presuming you've already come through a lot of science stuffs; If not, it could be revelational for you as well.  

A HUGE thanks to Netgalley and Penguin Random House Children's for this wonderful opportunity.

A sweet lovely book for teens. I liked the format of a young person talking into an i pod to aliens. I would clearly aeal more to young people than my own age group but I would encourage any parent or gran parent to read and buy it for presents. I loved the wit and bravery of this boy Alex, he had a lot to deal with and came through his adventures, ups and downs well. Often alone with no one but strangers around him he quickly makes friends and is determined to follow his plan. Not wanting to spoil this I will just say read it!

When I saw this title on NetGalley and have read the synopsis I really wanted to read it. When I was little I always wanted to be an astronaut. I used to watch the stars every night and I tried to teach myself stuff about space as much as I could. Unfortunately I realized quickly that I wouldn’t become an astronaut as my maths are the worst and I became quite afraid after I saw Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger explode.

Alex is an absolute sweetheart, it’s impossible to not like him. He’s so determined to launch his rocket into space together with his Golden Ipod where he recorded things on in the hope life outside earth would listen to it one day.

So many things happen in his young life and sometimes you just feel so sorry for him you’d like to get him out of the book to give him a big hug. As you can tell, this book really gets to you and makes you feel how the characters feel in that moment. This story has a bit of everything; adventure, wonderful new friendships, space and it even handles mental health towards the end.

I absolutely loved this book and I secretly hope that one day, maybe, there will be a film made out of it.

(I rated this book 5 stars but I’d give Alex all the stars of the universe if I could)