"An eye-opening journey through space "
Your Tour of the Universe
Armed with the maps in this large-format, attractively illustrated book, young readers can embark on a tour of our solar system, discovering a wealth of information along the way. It opens with a series of maps of the night skies, demonstrating how their appearance differs depending on where the viewer is, and at what time. It also provides an equatorial map of the sky and illustrates the way different cultures mapped what they could see, comparing the outline created by the ancient Greeks with that drawn up by those in ancient China and the San in South Africa too. Thoroughly inspired, their interest piqued, readers can then explore the Milky Way, the sun and the planets in our solar system and even go beyond that, with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the most fascinating and beautiful pages provide close ups of the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Crab Nebula, Tommaso Vidus Rosin’s illustrations photographic in their detail but rich too with a sense of awe and wonder. It concludes with a section on humans in space, from first steps on the moon to the International Space Station. Perhaps some of the young people who will read and be inspired by this mind-expanding book will be travellers in space one day too.
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Are you ready to begin your journey through space? Then all you have to do is look up into the night sky. What can you see? Marvel at the twinkling stars, and the constellations that they make.
Learn about what different cultures call each shape and what the patterns means to them. Then get ready to venture farther - out into the solar system and past what the naked eye can see.
Hop from planet to planet and discover what makes Earth different, or similar, to its celestial neighbours.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Space Maps and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
Space Maps features in the following genres: Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Reference Works, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Science, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Space, The Natural World, Featured Books for 9+ readers
Space Maps is available in Hardback
Space Maps was written by Lara Albanese and published by What on Earth Books an imprint of What on Earth Publishing Ltd
Space Maps has 87 pages
£17.09
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