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<p>Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to King’s College London where he gained a first class honours degree in botany and zoology. After a career in comedy writing for TV and radio, he turned to creating award-winning non-fiction for children built on his love of science and finding things out. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Children’s Book Award 2021 in the ‘Best Book with Facts’ category, and has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association for Science Education Children’s Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Children’s Science Books (twice).<br><br>His website can be found at www.mikebarfield.co.uk.</p><p><b>Take a colourful and comical tour through our galaxy and beyond with this fun new comic collection from Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley.</b><br><br>Discover the poisonous clouds of Venus, the rings of Saturn and the raging storm on Jupiter. Venture inside nebulae, black holes, supernovas and far-flung galaxies. Find out about the historic figures who pioneered space travel, the animals who ventured to the stars so humans could follow and the ground-breaking technology that took them there.<br><br>With over 90 fun-packed entries, children will laugh as they learn about the wonders of the universe. Each entry uses a colourful comic-strip style to delight and inform young readers in equal measure.<br><br><b>Also available in the series:</b><br><i>A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and</i> <i>You</i> (Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2021) 9781780556468<br><i>A Day in the Life of a Caveman, a Queen and Everything in</i> <i>Between </i>9781780557137</p><b>Journey through outer space with the latest non-fiction comic collection from Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley’s award-winning series.</b>Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley team up once again to give you a taste of a day in the life of Space.
Product Details
| Title: | A Day in the Life of an Astronaut Mars and the Distant Stars [Paperback] Barfield Mike and Bradley Jess |
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| Author: | Mike Barfield,Jess Bradley |
| SKU: | BK0472328 |
| EAN: | 9781780557441 |
| Language: | English |
About Author
<p>Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to King’s College London where he gained a first class honours degree in botany and zoology. After a career in comedy writing for TV and radio, he turned to creating award-winning non-fiction for children built on his love of science and finding things out. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Children’s Book Award 2021 in the ‘Best Book with Facts’ category, and has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association for Science Education Children’s Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Children’s Science Books (twice).<br><br>His website can be found at www.mikebarfield.co.uk.</p>,Jess Bradley is an illustrator and comic artist from Torquay. As well as writing and drawing for <i>The Phoenix, </i>she also writes for <i>The Beano </i>and illustrates a variety of children’s books. She has created puzzle and activity and comic books for various publishers, including contributing to Usborne’s bestselling <i>Write and Draw Your Own Comics. </i>Her work for Buster Books includes the Bright Sparks series, <i>I Heart Cute Colouring </i>and the laugh-out-loud <i>A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You.</i>