Exploring Space: Adventures Across the Universe with Emma and Louis

by Anne Ameri-Siemens, Little Gestalten (Editor), Anton Hallmann (Illustrator)

Overview

Get ready to join Emma and Louis as they begin Exploring Space! See incredible sights, discover the secrets of the cosmos and learn all about the amazing planets, stars, galaxies, the incredible technology and even the people who travel to space!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783967047707
Publisher:	Gestalten
Publication date:	10/08/2024
Pages:	56
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.00(d)
Lexile:	IG1020L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Anne Ameri-Siemens is an award-winning writer who tells whimsical stories about the world around us. After working for Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, she wrote a Spiegel Bestseller. Anne lives in Berlin, but would like to spend more time in nature. Exploring Space is her fourth book with Little Gestalten.

Anton Hallmann was born in Brandenburg, Germany, and studied illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Science. He currently lives in Stockholm and he is primarily working in editorial illustration for newspapers and magazines. Exploring Space is his fourth children’s book with Little Gestalten.

Editorial Reviews

2024-09-14
Two young space experts conduct a whirlwind tour of the solar system and other astronomical topics.

Brown-skinned Emma and light-skinned Louis begin with basic concepts such as gravity and light-years before going on to cover the Big Bang and the planets; they also offer superficial considerations of random related topics from galaxies to science fiction books and movies. Featuring bright, sometimes busy illustrations, this German import feels haphazardly organized. The entries on Venus and Mercury are sandwiched between those for the likewise out-of-order Neptune and Uranus, and spreads on spacecraft and space tourism, which are at least tangentially related, are interrupted by an introduction to exoplanets. The book also contains several factual flubs that may be translation errors, such as claims that the sun is “the largest star in our solar system” (in fact, it’s the only star) and that Saturn’s year is the longest of all the planets (that distinction belongs to Neptune). More orderly and more carefully fact-checked overviews of our universe and its exploration abound for readers with stars (or planets) in their eyes.

Leave this one on the launch pad. (glossary)(Informational picture book. 7-9)

Kirkus Reviews