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The Green Book

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 The Green Book by   Jill Paton Walsh My Rating: 3/5 Genre: Sci Fi, Children-fic Finished on: 16th Dec, 2020 I picked up this one when I came to know my cousin is teaching this story to her students in school. And well, there's always a child residing in me. At that point, the title seemed catchy and I thought, why not give it a try? And like any children's book, this was short and sweet. Something with which we can sit and ponder upon with our imaginative minds. ____________________________________________________ So basically the place where they used to live, the Earth, is dying. So they are all set to travel outer space in search of another, livable home. And the next day we all went away, Father and Joe, and Sarah, and Pattie, and lots of other families, and left the Earth far behind. Pattie is the protagonist here, through which we live this book. They finally do reach a planet though, and it wasn't quite normal unlike their previous home. Grass made of glass cut thro...