Pieces of Another World
Art by Salima Alikhan
Sylvan Dell, 2005


Review by Pooja Makhijani
From Kahani Winter 2006

An Unforgettable Adventure
When Jody’s father rouses her out of her slumber by whispering the words “Wake up, Jody-bird” in her ear, Jody just knows that she is leaving on an extraordinary voyage. When Jody and her father finally arrive at their destination, he points to a streak of white in the black sky. He calls it a “’hey-there’ from outer space - tiny piece of some distant world.”

Mara Rockliff’s satisfying book, Pieces of Another World (Sylvan Dell, 2005), celebrates meteor showers. But what makes this book a keeper are Salima Alikhan’s lush watercolor illustrations. Her purpley-bluish-black paintings of the sky and all its mysteries are just gorgeous.