A Journey Through Space

by Steve Parker, John Haslam (Illustrator)

Overview

Take a journey from your doorstep into outer space! Zoom through the Solar System, discovering satellites, comets and asteroids along the way. Explore craters on Mars, moon-hop around Jupiter, and get a close-up view of Saturn's amazing rings. Just don't travel too close to the Sun! Packed with lively illustrations to reveal our amazing universe, this book is perfect for a parent and child to read together or to explore independently. Includes a dust jacket that doubles up as a poster.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711280069
Publisher:	Quarto Publishing Group USA
Publication date:	08/01/2022
Series:	Journey Through
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	442,505
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	730L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 8 Years

About the Author

STEVE PARKER is an award-winning science author for children and adults. After gaining a degree in Zoology and working at the Natural History Museum, Steve moved into educational publishing and has now written more than 300 titles. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.

John Haslam has been working as an illustrator for most of his professional life. John worked in advertising for 10 years and worked on various projects including TV storyboards, to illustrating for all kinds of accounts from Pritt Stick (the Pritt Stick Man was his invention), to comic pages such as Danger Mouse, Disney and Transformers.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 2-4Two volumes in an ephemeral series that combines supposedly funny cartoon illustrations with generalized answers to posed, frequently rhetorical questions. "What if aircraft didn't have wings?...What if planes could land on water?...How do pilots tell time?" "Is there a man in the Moon?...What if there were Martians?" Parker abandons the question-and-answer format at will, and many of the responses are vague or even contradictory. Aside from a few labeled diagrams, the full-color illustrations are unabashed space-fillers, artist's doodles scattered between islands of text without apparent regard for visual unity. Readers used to the "Eyewitness" books and Dorling Kindersley nonfiction will quickly push these titles aside.John Peters, New York Public Library

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