The Spectacular Space Loop by Javi De Castro, - ADVISABLE

The Spectacular Space Loop by Javi De Castro, 64 pages. GRAPHIC NOVEL Flying Eye Books Ltd. 2025. $13. 

Language: G (0 swears 0 'f'); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG (peril, monsters, lost in space) 

BUYING ADVISORY: EL - ADVISABLE 

APPEALS TO: SOME 

A young astronaut named Cosmo is testing a new rocket backpack and is launched into space. Unfortunately, his team didn't tell him how to get back. So he goes on an adventure, meeting aliens, monsters and making a friend or two. 

The fun of this graphic novel is that it reads both ways, the book flips over at the ending and reads back to finish the story. The first read follows white speech bubbles, the flipped read is yellow speech bubbles. I loved how the illustrations work both ways. A cute story and an engaging gimmick. Cosmo is drawn white. 

Lisa Librarian