Lewis Trondheim and Manu Larcenet's Astronauts of the Future

Pretty good.

Reminds me of Pinkwater (though the protaganists meeting is more realistic than anything in Pinkwater's books). Reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes.

Reminds me of a book I would have wanted to read at the age of 10 or 11.

Reminds me of a book I want to give to a ten or eleven year old... though that'd be the height of arrogance to assume that they are like me at the age of 10 or 11. (A tendency that annoyed me a young 'un.)

Ah well.