My Night in the Planetarium by Innosanto Nagara

My Night in the Planetarium by Innosanto Nagara

7-year-old Innosanto spends an exciting night with his mom sleeping under the stars in the Jakarta Planetarium. Innosanto's father is a playwright and the boy memorizes lines during the actors' rehearsals, so they invite him to join the performance, which tours the country. The play is about a General, who doesn't treat people very well, so they decided to do a play about how that was wrong. Fact: Indonesia aka The Spice Islands is the place Christopher Columbus was looking for when he crashed in the New World. Fact: Indonesia is made up of 17000 islands where people speak over 750 different languages. Fact: when Inno was a child, speaking out against the government could land you in jail. On the last night of the performace Inno packs a toothbrush (they figured if you're going to go to jail for a long time, you may as well have your toothbrush with you so you can keep your teeth clean. (true story).), the curtains go down, and with soldiers on the way, the actors scatter into hiding. On its surface, My Night in the Planetarium is a modern Indonesian children's story about one night in the late '70s that the author got to spend in the Jakarta planetarium. But it's actually much more than that. It's an introduction to the history and culture of Indonesia. It's about colonialism, revolution, how power corrupts, and how through art and solidarity liberation can be won.

INNOSANTO NAGARA's new-wave board books inspire kids to be confident in themselves as they grow up, and to be active citizens who care about problems ranging from the environment to LGBTQ rights and civil rights. Nagara was born and reared in Indonesia before relocating to the United States in 1988. He went to the San Francisco Bay Area after studying zoology and philosophy at UC Davis and working as a graphic designer for a variety of social change organizations before forming the Design Action Collective, a worker-owned cooperative design firm in Oakland, California.

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ISBN 13	9781609807009
ISBN 10	1609807006
Title	My Night in the Planetarium
Author	Innosanto Nagara
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Year published	2016-11-10
Number of pages	24
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.