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An Adventurer's Guide to Outer Space

An Adventurer's Guide to Outer Space

Summary

Blast off on an interactive voyage beyond the stars!

Pack your spacesuit and join adventurer Mia on a spellbinding journey to the depths of the universe, spotting spectacular constellations, discovering new asteroids and counting the sparkling rings of Saturn.

On your way, you can visit:

- the Moon and Sun
- the International Space Station
- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
- the Asteroid Belt
- the Dwarf Planets
- the Kuiper Belt
- Exoplanets
- the Milky Way and distant galaxies

With breathtaking facts and interactive space activities, this captivating book will excite and inspire the adventurers of the future.

About the authors

Isabel Thomas

Isabel Thomas has written more than 150 books about science for young readers and has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association of Science Education Book of the Year, the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards and the Blue Peter Book Awards.
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Yas Imamura (Illustrator)

Yas Imamura is an illustrator based in Portland, Oregon. Much of her work draws inspiration from the books she enjoyed as a child, her art evolving into an amalgamation of both the timeless and modern. Yas's preferred materials are gouache and watercolour.
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