Books with title Space Tourist: A Traveler's Guide to the Solar System

What would it be like to walk on a Martian plain? Watch wild volcanoes on Jupiter? All it takes to find out is a touch of imagination and this entertaining guide to the solar system, illustrated with NASA’s most up-to-date color photos. So get ready to blast off, and fly through the skies from Mercury to Pluto, stopping to visit planets, asteroids, and moons along the way. Feel Venus’s intense pressure and heat, thanks to a thick blanket of carbon dioxide. Alight on Saturn and gaze at its beautiful and mysterious rings. See greenish-blue Uranus, which takes 84 Earth-years to travel round the sun. There’s lots of fun information, related in a simple, appealing style kids will easily understand and enjoy.

Bored of spending all your holidays on Mars? Now you can travel further off the beaten astral plane with this fact-packed guide.• Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.• A travel guide to all the planets in the solar system on pages 54 and 55 makes it easy for children to recap what the key facts they’ve learnt.• Text type: A non-chronological report.• Curriculum links: Science; Geography; Citizenship.• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader