Title: My night in the Planetarium
Description: 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 crashed in the New World.
Subjects: Children, Biography, History, Children, asia, Indonesia, Indonesia, juvenile literature
Places: Indonesia
People: Innosanto Nagara
Time periods: 1966-1998