Voyage across the Cosmos; Cosmic!
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This issue’s cover illustration by Helen Oxenbury is from Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox (Walker, 978 1 4063 1592 9, £10.99 hbk). Helen Oxenbury writes about her illustration here. Thanks to Walker Books for their help with this January cover.
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Voyage across the Cosmos
Cosmic!
Both of these books describe the contents of the Universe; the author is the same, but the means are very different.
Voyage across the Cosmos: a Journey to the Edge of Space and Time, apart from scattered infotech gimmicks such as ‘INCOMING DATA… ACCEPTED>‘ and ‘< Cosmic!: The flashing, exploding, 3-D guide to stars and planets, battery-powered, invites the reader to see the lights by pressing a button on the front cover, roars when opened to the first spread – from the Big Bang to the Early Universe – and has only seven spreads altogether. There are full-spread pop-up images, and numbers of flaps, pull-tabs and turnwheels, which reveal a good deal of information about Looking into Space, The Planets, Our Solar System, Stars, Galaxies, Exploring Space and Robot Spacecraft, mostly chopped into short passages. Many of the images also come from NASA.
