Blast Off to the Planets
Will be published approx. on 25. March 2027
Book
Board book
22 pages
978-1-4003-5712-3 (ISBN)
Description
This innovative tactile book combines the best of learning and adventure. Travel the solar system and learn about each planet, then return home with a new appreciation for the beauty of the Earth.
It's your child's first trip to the cosmos! Take off from Earth and check out each of the other planets in our solar system. You'll learn about each celestial body and why it may not necessarily be a nicer place to be than the planet you live on. After lots of colorful and exciting adventure, return home with a new appreciation for the beauty of the world around you.
Each page of the book is longer than the one before, so you can see all the planets peeking out even when the book is closed. The rocket flies across the pages, so the book gets longer the further you travel. This fun, innovative format has great tactile appeal.
It's your child's first trip to the cosmos! Take off from Earth and check out each of the other planets in our solar system. You'll learn about each celestial body and why it may not necessarily be a nicer place to be than the planet you live on. After lots of colorful and exciting adventure, return home with a new appreciation for the beauty of the world around you.
Each page of the book is longer than the one before, so you can see all the planets peeking out even when the book is closed. The rocket flies across the pages, so the book gets longer the further you travel. This fun, innovative format has great tactile appeal.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
HarperCollins Focus
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 2 to 99 years
Product notice
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 172 mm
Width: 223 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4003-5712-3 (9781400357123)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Katie Peek is a science writer, illustrator, and data visualization designer based in Baltimore. She holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied obscure atoms in common stars and searched for planets circling other suns. After completing her degree, she studied science journalism at NYU then joined the art department at Popular Science magazine, eventually becoming editor of information graphics and data visualizations. Freelance since 2016, her bread and butter is to conceive, report, design, create, and write visual pages for Scientific American (where she is a contributing artist), Audubon, and The New York Times Magazine. She also illustrates books about science, including Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe (2017, Black Dog & Leventhal) and Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable (2018, Ecco).
She loves sharing science with children-not just explaining the cosmos and the human body to her own kids, aged 4 and 9, but also explaining how things work to young readers. She's written about engineering-how to design human wingsuits and penguin nests-for Scholastic's SuperScience, Science World, and DynaMath magazines, and about solar eclipses and hurricanes for Science World. For The New York Times for Kids, she's written about rockets, color blindness, baby teeth, and class pets. She also contributes to The New York Times Parenting section.
She loves sharing science with children-not just explaining the cosmos and the human body to her own kids, aged 4 and 9, but also explaining how things work to young readers. She's written about engineering-how to design human wingsuits and penguin nests-for Scholastic's SuperScience, Science World, and DynaMath magazines, and about solar eclipses and hurricanes for Science World. For The New York Times for Kids, she's written about rockets, color blindness, baby teeth, and class pets. She also contributes to The New York Times Parenting section.