"If you could go anywhere beyond our galaxy for the perfect picnic, where would you go? Asa Stahl, an NSTA award-winner for his previous book The Big Bang Book, introduces readers to some of the fascinating exoplanets we know about it. This is science at its most fantastical. What other worlds are out there, and will the young person reading this book grow up to discover even more?"--
Join an astrophysicist on a trip around the galaxy to explore worlds beyond our own.
If you could go anywhere beyond our galaxy for the perfect picnic, where would you go? Asa Stahl, an NSTA award-winner for his previous book The Big Bang Book, introduces readers to some of the fascinating exoplanets we know about it. This is science at its most fantastical. What other worlds are out there, and will the young person reading this book grow up to discover even more?
"[W]onderfully clever . . . . Perfect for fans of space, adventures, and daring picnics."βstarred, Booklist
"Too far to go in a spaceship but just right for a flight of imagination."βKirkus Reviews
Asa Stahl is an astrophysicist who loves to make science interesting for the youngest readers. His previous book with Creston was the award-winning The Big Bang Book. Nadia Hsieh uses art to tell stories. Her previous book, EighteenΒ Vats of Water, told a traditional slice of Chinese history. In Picnic Planet, she literally takes us out of this world.
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