Overview
Discover mind-expanding ideas about the Sun, stars, and planets through statistics, incredible infographics and amazing full-color illustrations. In this wonderful hardcover guide, young readers will find the answers to hundreds of cosmic questions about our Earth, space missions, comets, asteroids, galaxies and bizarre black holes. The question and answer format is a playful and accessible way for children learn facts that will intrigue, surprise, and ignite a lifelong interest in space science. Discover: - Which planets turn the wrong way? - Why is stargazing like time travel? - Was a planet really called ""Easterbunny?"" Supporting STEM learning, it's the perfect way to take young readers' knowledge to the next level. Ideal for curious kids aged 8+.
Full Product Details
Author: Anne Rooney ,
Jake McDonald ,
Señor Sanchez
Publisher: Arcturus Editions
Imprint: Arcturus Editions
Dimensions:
Width: 22.60cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 28.20cm
Weight: 0.703kg
ISBN: 9781398814639
ISBN 10: 1398814636
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 15 September 2022
Recommended Age: From 8 to 12 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
absorbing and engaging, with complex ideas written in a straightforward manner, with many amusing or light-hearted features. intriguing, bright, bursting with interesting and understandable facts. The use of different colours, font sizes and appearance, plenty of surrounding white space, and clever positioning of images and text make these easy to read, uncluttered, nicely flowing books.
""absorbing and engaging, with complex ideas written in a straightforward manner, with many amusing or light-hearted features."" ""intriguing, bright, bursting with interesting and understandable facts."" ""The use of different colours, font sizes and appearance, plenty of surrounding white space, and clever positioning of images and text make these easy to read, uncluttered, nicely flowing books.""
Author Information
Anne Rooney is an award-winning author who has written several bestselling books on history, philosophy and science. She was longlisted for the prestigious Aventis Science Prize in 2004, was shortlisted for the ALCS Educational Writers' Award in 2015 and won the School Library Association Information Book Award in 2018. She has a degree and a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge and has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. She brings her knowledge of a wide range of subjects to a young audience with accuracy, humour and fun!
