How It Works: Rocket

by Amelia Hepworth, David Semple (Illustrator)

Overview

A first introduction for toddlers who love rockets and space travel!

Zoom! Zoom! Follow the speeding rocket up to the moon and back in this first introduction to space travel. With layered die-cuts, fun facts, and a mouse to find on every spread!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680106527
Publisher:	Tiger Tales.
Publication date:	06/01/2021
Series:	How It Works
Pages:	10
Sales rank:	220,141
Product dimensions:	7.75(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.71(d)
Lexile:	AD600L (what's this?)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Amelia Hepworth lives in London with her family and her elderly sausage dog, Katie. When she is not writing stories, she enjoys spending time with her little boy and daydreaming outside. Usually not at the same time. Amelia is the author of the best-selling I Love You to the Moon and Back.

David Semple was born in the North East of England in the early 70's. After studying illustration he enjoyed a stint working in the TV & Film industry in London painting latex puppets & prosthetics! Since then a pencil has never been far from his hand and he has designed and illustrated characters for a wide range of clients across the globe. He lives in York with his designer wife Kate, their three children, and Olive the dog.

Editorial Reviews

★ 2021-05-05
Everything young readers need to know about rockets, from liftoff to splashdown.

Inventive die cuts and inherently fascinating subject matter make this board book ideal for budding astronauts. The rocket-shaped cutouts are perfect for small hands to grab onto, and the pages are thick and seemingly indestructible. The colorful drawings are easily read. The images and cutaways are well layered, offering views into the spacecraft’s interior that change with each turn of the page. Rockets are well suited to this approach because of the differently purposed sections, or stages, of the spacecraft. Vocabulary words appear throughout the book, with arrows pointing to what they describe in each illustration. Items depicted include “rocket boosters,” “exhaust gases,” “fuel tank,” and “command module,” to name a few. The astronauts aboard are a man and a woman, both White-presenting, and a similarly spacesuited mouse. After splashdown, they are picked up by a ship with a multiracial crew. Scenes are presented in a sequence of six double-page spreads following the various stages of space exploration and return: “What Is a rocket?” “3, 2, 1, Blast Off!” “Out of This World,” “One Small Step for Man,” “Prepare for Re-entry,” and “Splashdown!” Contemporaneously published companion volume Tractor also features die-cut windows but lacks the level of variation and layering of interest this volume achieves.

Stellar! (Board book. 1-4)

Kirkus Reviews