Who better to read it than astronaut Dr Shannon Walker from the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station, via the big screen at the cinema?

Kids from Tenterfield Childcare Centre and Tenterfield Preschool had a spacey experience, also being entertained by students from Tenterfield High School.

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Dr Walker delivered a great reading of the story telling of a keen astronaut-to-be who launches herself into space and checks out the planets in our solar system. Ultimately she discovers the best place for life, in all its forms, is on planet Earth and her next mission is to help protect it.

Story Time from Space is a regular NASA project to encourage STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) studies in the classroom. Dr Walker recorded a special reading of Give me some space! to be used in this year's Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) National Simultaneous Storytime.

Every year ALIA chooses a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, to be read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and other places around the country. It aims to promote the value of reading and literacy, addressing key learning areas of the national curriculum.

This year the exercise certainly gave a new perspective on the joy of reading, especially when the reader is very much an expert in the topic and she has to hang on to the book to prevent in floating away in zero gravity.