Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Space-themed mazes, maths games and more
Price: £7.99
Imprint: Buster Books
Publication date: 13/02/2025
ISBN: 9781916763258
Age: 9-11 years
Subject: Non-Fiction
Category: Activity & Puzzles
Binding: Paperback
Size: 280 x 216 mm
Extent: 48 pages
Illustration: Full colour
Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)
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Enquire nowPacked with over 30 puzzles themed around space. Topics include planets, stars, asteroids, black holes, nebulae and exo-planets
Each activity is accompanied by a fascinating bite-sized fact about the topic in question, so readers can learn loads of cool stuff about space as they puzzle their way around the universe
All the facts are provided by Dr Maggie and written in her engaging and fun style
The beautifully illustrated puzzles allow the reader to feel immersed in the world of outer space and bring this STEM subject to life in an interactive way
Building on the success of Dr Maggie’s Grand Tour of the Solar System, which was published in 2019 to rave reviews, is a BookTrust Pick and has sold over 60,000 copies in the English language, and Am I Made of Stardust?, which won the Royal Society Young People's Book Award 2023, was nominated for 'Best Children's Non-Fiction Book' at the British Book Awards, and sold over 35,000 copies in the English language
Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock PhD is a space scientist whose passion is presenting science to a general audience and demonstrating that you ‘don’t need a brain the size of a small planet’ to understand, participate in and enjoy science. She studied at Imperial College London, where she obtained her degree in Physics and her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. She has spent her career making novel, bespoke instrumentation in both the industrial and academic environments including working on the James Webb Space Telescope and various satellite monitoring climate change. To further share her passion for science, in 2004 Maggie founded Science Innovation Ltd. Through this company she conducts public engagement activities, sharing her love of space and encouraging underrepresented communities to take up STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. To date Maggie has directly spoken to well over 600,000 people around the world. As well as public speaking she is a Bafta-nominated TV presenter, co-hosting the world’s longest-running science television program The Sky at Night. She is also an author, and her recent children’s book Am I Made of Stardust? won the Royal Society book prize. Maggie also won the Institute of Physics gold medal for exceptional services to science education and physics communication; she was the President of the British Science Association and is the current Chancellor of the University of Leicester. She was made a Dame in the 2023 New Year’s Honours list.
Chelen is an illustrator and a lettering artist based in Madrid, Spain. Painting and lettering are her passions and playing with letterpress type is her hobby. She is also addicted to travelling, eating sunflower seeds and buying new books. She has worked for numerous publishers including Penguin Random House, Scholastic and Hachette.
