A Day in the Life of an Astronaut, Mars, and the Distant Stars

by Mike Barfield, Jess Bradley (Illustrator)

Overview

From the creators of A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu, and You comes an encyclopedic glance at all things outer space and makes a hilarious and informative guide for curious young readers.

Blast off for a day in the life of space and the people (and animals!) who have explored it. From hilarious comics to secret diaries and detailed diagrams, there are tons of things to discover and fantastic facts to learn.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534489219
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	04/25/2023
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	509,210
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	GN840L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Mike Barfield is a writer, cartoonist, poet, and performer, who lives in a small village in North Yorkshire, England. A typical day in his life consists of sitting at a desk in a very untidy room surrounded by hundreds of books, while he writes and draws things he hopes will make people laugh.

Jess Bradley is an illustrator and comic artist from Torquay, England. As well as writing and drawing for The Phoenix, she also writes for The Beano and illustrates a variety of children’s books. During her day, she enjoys painting in her sketchbooks, watching scary films, and letting her son beat her at Mario Kart.

Editorial Reviews

2023-01-25
A chorus of extraterrestrial items and phenomena from a black hole to astronaut poop tell their stories in this wide-angle graphic survey.

Having careened through history and science in previous outings, Barfield and Bradley wax astronomical both in topic and scope. In the course of surveying our explorations and observations of the universe, they give voices (and cartoon faces) to everything from chatty asteroids (“Yay, you rock!” “No, you rock!” “We all rock!”) and galaxies to astronaut food and oxygen molecules. Beginning with a tour of the solar system and ending with a flurry of space travel topics from living on Mars to the dangers of belching in microgravity, the loosely organized entries offer a chewy mix of introductions to cosmic mysteries like gravity and dark energy along with more intimate “secret diaries” from, for instance, a squirrel monkey who survived an early trip into space and a mouse on the International Space Station. Rarely if ever have the heavens seemed more accessible, not to mention voluble…and if the creators think that the closest black hole to Earth is at our galaxy’s center, which is wrong, they otherwise get their facts straight. For all the faces on display there aren’t many human ones, but several, such as NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson, are people of color.

A broad, breezy blast of astro-facts. (glossary) (Graphic nonfiction. 9-12)

Kirkus Reviews