Explorers: Stars and Planets

by Stott, Carole; Bull, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780753464984
• ISBN10: 0753464985
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-26
• Publisher: Kingfisher

Summary

Explorersare designed to stimulate readers in the early elementary grades (ages 68), who are beginning to exercise wider reading, research and cross-referencing skills. They can be read from page to page, or as a fun extra element the reader can follow special 'page links' to access information on related topics. Six fabulous artwork scenes are each followed up with photographic information spreads, which provide extra detail and background. Stars and Planetsis an adventure through our solar system and beyond, visiting mysterious worlds from gas giants to frozen rocky moons, and gazing at the millions of stars in the universe.

Author Biography

Carole Stott has written more than 20 books on astronomy and space, and is a feature riter for the UK magazine Astronomy Now. Carole authored Kingfisher’s popular I Wonder Why Stars Twinkle and Other Questions About Space and The Best-Ever Book of Astronomy. Before turningto full-time writing, she was curator, and then head, of the Greenwich Royal Observatory.

Peter Bull has worked as a freelance illustrator for more than twenty-five years. He creates both traditional and digital art for publishers worldwide and also runs the Peter Bull Art Studio, based in the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

Booklist

Kids acclimated to following bits of stimuli down the rabbit hole of the web will be right at home with the interactive approach taken by [this new book] in the Explorers series. Each spread presents a new array of facts and information bytes around a central, digitally composed image, with small color-coded symbols that lead readers off into related information on different pages, emphasizing a subject-based browse that leaps forward and backward through the book before being recapped on a final page. . . . The choose-your-own-path approach, which allows readers to follow the aspects that interest them most, makes [this book] a [clear choice] for curious readers.