Space Girl

About this book

From her own nest, Jessica marvels at the night sky and wonders: Could a sparrow like me ever fly all the way to the moon?Exquisitely written and extraordinarily illustrated, Space Girl brings us on Jessica Meir's journey from her childhood dream of space travel to becoming an astronaut who performs the first all-woman spacewalk! Inspired by watching a young sparrow learn to fly in her Maine backyard, Jessica decides she, too, will spread her wings. Just like the sparrow, she falters along the way, but she never gives up on her goal. Flutter, flap, flight!