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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.47
EAN num: 9780753461679
ISBN number: 0753461676
Label: Kingfisher
Manufacturer: Kingfisher
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 32
Printing Date: January 01, 1998
Publishing house: Kingfisher
Age index: Ages 4-8
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 1333
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This engaging series is tailored to young children's interests and reading level. Lively text explains the basics of a popular subject, while intriguing facts are brought to life through detailed and informative artwork.
From the rockets that took humans to the moon to the satellites that circle Earth today, this is a supersonic journey into space. Aspiring young astronauts will love this book full of essential facts about the solar system, rockets, spacecraft, satellites, moon landings, and life in space.
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This book is wonderful. The illustrations are colorful and captions are interesting. It is sure to capture the attention of any child interested in space. It's laid out in a manner that holds the interest of my five year old, with a new topic being covered on each two-page spread. However, it includes enough technical information to keep my son interested for years to come.
The book covers how rockets, probes, satellites, and space shuttles work and what each is used for. It also details spaceships from the past, as well as modern ones.
In addition to covering spaceships, the book has sections on space suits, working in space, and space stations.
The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is that it's simply a shortened version of the book, "My Book of Space (My Book of)" (which I unfortunately already owned when I purchased this book), written by the same author. Every page in "The Best Book of Spaceships" is included in "My Book of Space", but there are additional topics covered in the latter. So, I would recommend purchasing "My Book of Space (My Book of)" instead, especially considering they are priced very similarly. If you do decide to buy this book, just be sure not to buy "My Book of Space" down the road.
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I have a 3 1/2 year old Son who has watch the last 2 space shuttles take off. In searching my library system, I discovered this book. After checking it out serveral times, I decided to just buy the book because I'm tired of renewing the check-out and waiting for it to come back to the library. It's kind of fun watching his imagination with spaceships take off from this book (Everything that is not a spaceship or a rocket is now a spaceship or a rocket). I have seen other books in the library on space, but nothing with images that caputre the attention of my son. Everytime I come home with this book, his eyes light up and he starts flipping though the pages.
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I picked this book out from the huge selection of children's books at the National Air & Space Museum. It has some informative text and lots of attractive pictures. One especially nice thing is that it doesn't just show what spaceships look like but how they work. For example, it shows (better than some other books I've seen) the steps in a shuttle launch or a trip to the moon (it helped me explain to the kids where the lunar module is in the Saturn V, and how the astronauts got into it), and even an astronaut putting on her space suit. For the 4-7 crowd, it's great.
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