One Potato Review

Leave it to Ezra Jack Keats to go exploring in trailer parks and urban moonscapes. Louie’s stepfather is a junk-man, but the lack of further introduction gives this story a buoyant matter-of-factness - about messy families and messy friendships and messy feelings – that ends up feeling essential when Louie constructs a spaceship out of all of that junk and goes rocketing into the solar system, using imagination as his jet-fuel. This is a book about the leaps of faith we all take - whether private, derided, or trailblazing – and here is Keats again praising the tiny rays of hopefulness that penetrate even the bleakest looking neighborhoods.