100 Whys About Space (Lia & Leo Explore)

If you want your child to stop asking "why?" at bedtime because they finally got a real answer - then keep reading.

Why is the sky blue? Could I jump higher on the Moon? How do astronauts go to the toilet?

Are you tired of answering "I'm not sure, sweetie" to the same space questions every night? Have you tried the big encyclopedias - the ones with tiny print and pages your six-year-old never opens twice? Do you want a space book your child actually asks for, and one that leaves you ready for the next "but why?"

If so, 100 Whys About Space is for you.

You see, explaining the universe to a five-year-old doesn't have to be complicated. It just has to be true, short, and a little bit funny. Every answer in this book was checked against current science, then rewritten until a four-year-old could repeat it and an eight-year-old could read it alone. Lia keeps the Question Book, Leo builds the experiments, and Pixel - their small robot - guesses first and is usually, hilariously, wrong.

In 100 Whys About Space, your child will discover:

• The one thing the Moon never does - even though it looks like it does every month


• Why Pixel's guess about "no gravity in space" is the mistake almost every grown-up makes too


• What actually happens to a sneeze, a drink, and a bedtime story on the space station


• The kitchen experiment that makes a real crater in ten minutes (you need flour and a marble)


• How to see a star twinkle inside a glass of water


• Why Mars is red, why Saturn has rings, and where the stars go in the daytime


• Four questions that nobody on Earth can answer yet - and what scientists are doing about it


• And much, much more - 100 questions, 32 full-page paintings, 8 Try-It-Tonight experiments

Imagine your child explaining to Grandma why the Moon changes shape - with a tennis ball and a lamp - and being right.

So even if your child is four and can't read yet, the bold line on every page is written to be read aloud in one breath. Even if they are eight and "too old for picture books," the full answers and the Grown-Up Corner keep them turning pages. Even if you were never a space person, every answer comes with the follow-up question already handled.

Ages 4-8. 104 pages, 8.5 × 11 inches, full color, printed big on thick paper. Book 1 in the Lia & Leo Explore series from Elwood & Co.

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