Cover of My Night In The Planetarium by Innosanto Nagara, a children's book set in Indonesia

My Night In The Planetarium

by Innosanto Nagara

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About This Book

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…