Rocket Countdown
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This issue’s cover, illustrated by David Wyatt, is from Geraldine McCaughrean’s The Kite Rider. Geraldine McCaughrean is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. Thanks to Oxford University Press for their help in producing this January 2001 cover.
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Rocket Countdown
Re-issued from a 1995 original, this sturdy book counts down from ten to one as an astronaut prepares for space. Cleverly designed moving parts allow the reader to 'close the door', 'work the computer' etc, with a minimum of fragile mechanisms to tear or lose. Numerals, number words and an appropriate pattern of stars reinforce the counting aspects, echoed in the main pictures as the design permits. Sharratt's bold, colourful style is at its best here, providing tinies with the introduction to space travel they have been waiting for.
