Book Review of Young Carers in Space
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Young Carers in Space
Written and illustrated by Ana Graça
Ages: 4-6 | 32 Pages
Publisher: The Young Carers Illustration Project (2025) | ISBN: 978-1-0685137-2-5
What to Expect: Speaking out, space adventure, family, caring for others, hidden labor
There are a great many children, known as young carers, who work to provide care for a family member, and whose work remains largely unseen and unrecognized.
This picture book—the prequel to Young Carers in Bunnyland—raises awareness about that work and the impact it can have on young carers, as well as offering hope and validation to those who feel too small to voice their struggles.
Honey has a very important job to do at home: she helps her Mom care for her autistic big brother. Even though Honey loves helping her brother, it’s hard work helping care for him, and sometimes it interferes with other things—like getting to school on time. When Honey struggles to explain this to her teacher, help comes from an unexpected source—a fairy whisks Honey away in a spaceship and takes her to Planet Gigantica, where all the kids are big and have big voices to help them always be heard! There, Honey gains the courage to speak up for herself. The next time she’s late for school, she knows just what to say!
Honey, like most young people, has big feelings but struggles to speak about them; readers will empathize with her feelings of voicelessness in the authoritative environment of the school. Through visual representations of bigness, including scaled-up figures and close-ups of Honey’s face that help her fill the frame, the artwork illustrates the transformation from voicelessness to agency.
Empowering and instructive, Young Carers in Space is perfect for any reader who needs a little help expressing what they need to others.
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About the Author
Ana Graça is an author-illustrator from the sunny city of Rio de Janeiro, now based in London. She’s passionate about visual storytelling and loves creating whimsical worlds and magical characters, inspired by the nature around her, both in Brazil and the UK. Ana is particularly fond of birds, good coffee, and mixed-media textures, like gouache and crayons. She believes children’s books can, and should, be used for social change.
For more information, visit www.youngcarersillustrations.com.
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