You Can Jump Higher on the Moon and Other Amazing Facts About Space Exploration

I Didn't Know That...

by Kate Petty

An informative, fact-filled introduction to space and space exploration for young readers combines scientific concepts with hands-on activities, puzzles, games, quizzes, and projects that help youngsters study the moon and the planets of the solar system.

Hardcover

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

Writer/Editor Kate Petty (born Katharine Chapman) was the innovative author of more than two hundred books for children, including fiction, nonfiction, and picture books. Her award-winning pop-up books with illustrator Jennie Maizels and her collaborations with the Eden Project in Cornwall, England, are among her most popular works.

She died at age 55 from cancer.

Reviews

[Albana Bregu · Rating 3 out of 5]

It includes remarkable photographs, it uses captions and glossary to deepen the understanding of pupils about non-fiction facts and unfamiliar vocabulary, contents and index pages to find particular facts in the book, colours to make it stimulating, and headings to organise the text.