An illustrated children's guide to the Solar System filled with bite-sized, easy-to-remember facts about space It's time to discover the solar system! Designed for ages 7-11, this brilliant guide is perfect for fact-hungry space cadets! With contributions from real astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, The Solar System: A Cosmic Adventure teaches kids all about the phenomena of the solar system through short explanations of the planets and fascinating facts, quizzes, and did-you-know features. Beautiful illustrations and bright accompanying graphics help children engage with science from a young age. Did you know? Neptune has the strongest winds in the Solar System, capable of blowing almost 10 times faster than the fastest cars we have on Earth! You could fit more than a million Earths within the Sun! The seasons on Mars last twice as long as they do on Earth!

This wildly imaginative, crayon-inspired picture book shows that with a bit of teamwork and a universe of creativity, anything is possible! Buzz! Zap! CRASH! Gurple and Preen are in a big mess! When they crash-land onto an unfamiliar planet with nothing but boxes of crayons, they must work together to get the mission back on course. From Newbery Award–winning author Linda Sue Park and illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi comes a story about all the best things that can come out of a box of crayons.

A roster of infamy...a sextet of superhuman menaces banded together to carry out a malevolent scheme to hold as hostage nothing less than the entire planet Earth!

The Hill-Clan Rabbit Tribe becomes entangled in a series of intriguing space adventures with the flying-rats from Rat-Star. Among the wooded hills and creeks they discover a wilding--Zack--a lone stripling--ill prepared for survival. In desperation he'd fled the Humans and that which was known as home--and launched his life into a 'river of no return'. Zack joins the Rabbit Clan and the Star-Rats. As a result of a Space-Time experiment--certain aspiring space-rabbits are drawn into the probing curiosity of the Black-Rabbits from planet Ektar. The Clan is stunned by the unexpected arrival of an Ektar space-craft, and become part of a Star-Alliance that allows them access to galactic exploration. Zack, Rudy-Rat and seven rabbits are invited on a special cosmic mission to the planet Ektar where they encounter dangerous alien life-forms. Zack the wilding wonders how a kid coming on fifteen has become part of an inter-planetary war. Eventually, as a cosmic Being, he joins up with his remaining Earth family.

Wigglesworth's life as a pet ferret is turned upside-down when he becomes self-aware. It happens when he tries to eat a strange orb he finds aboard an alien star-ship that crash-lands into his room. In his prior life, he would peer out at the moon and stars through the confines of his cage and imagine flying amongst them. Now free, and with his very own starship, he renames himself 'Captain Hob' and can finally make that dream come true! Follow the Captain in this heartwarming and hilarious tale, where we learn that while difficulty is part of the journey, nothing should ever scare us from following our dreams!