This stunning illustrated guide to the universe and space exploration is out today in all good bookstores.
Originally published in Italian by Dalcò Edizioni and bought to New Zealand in a gorgeous English-language edition Space Maps draws on the latest discoveries of astronomy to take children to the farthest reaches of the universe, balancing a mix of circular maps and flat maps of the Solar System and the galaxies beyond.
Space Maps is authored by Lara Albanese, an award-winning writer of over 20 books about science for children, and a professor of physics at the Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy, and illustrated by Tommaso Vidus Rosin, also from Parma. Originally published in Italian by Dalcò Edizioni