Customer Reviews
Buy this for your children - By: R. Hughes, 09 Dec 2007 
My 10 year old read this quicker & with more enthusiasm than most of his previous books. A great page turner & educational as well. What more could you want?
Great for young minds - By: A. J. Hartson, 02 Nov 2007 My son, who has just turned 8, literallly devoured this book from cover to cover in the space of about a week during his half term holiday. This might not be amazing to some people but he has never before read a story book himself, having the attention span of a gnat, he usuallly prefers information books & comics. So I was delighted when he chose this book for himself & every night he went to bed to read the next exciting chapter of this book. This book obviously ticked alll the right boxes for him, enough of a story to keep the characters alive, with a great smattering of facts & figures about space, the universe, planets etc & lots of other things to capture the imagination of a fact-hungry 8 year old !
Further Than You've Ever Gone Before - By: Sensible Cat, 30 Oct 2007 I wish this book had been around when I was a kid devouring everything about stars & planets that I could lay my hands on. The story itself is nothing special, but it's full of fascinating & inspiring information, woven so neatly into the narrative that readers will hardly be aware that they are learning.
Illustrations are scattered liberallly throughout the text, in the form of both amusing pen-and-ink sketches & breathtaking photographs of astronomical phenomena. The reach of the book is truly universal, going much further than the familiar tour of the Solar System & even taking in the latest developments in our understanding of black holes. To explain a black hole clearly & comprehensively to primary school children is quite an achievement.
There's no dumbing down of the science - children's curiosity & intellectual development are respected throughout. A brilliant gift for young fans of Doctor Who - there's more than a touch of Tennant geek chic about Eric, the bespectacled, gangly Professor with wild hair & an amazing computer who moves in next door to George & shows him there's more to life than his parents' eco-activism & his pet pig.
Great for the young, and not so young - By: D. Shaw, 27 Sep 2007 I reallly enjoyed this. It was a great introduction to the universe, though it focused more on the solar system than the universe as a whole. The fact boxes are reallly useful too.
The concept of Cosmos the computer being able to create doors to the universe is reallly cool. And it is a very gripping read! always be careful around black holes!
The name dropping of Hawking radiation was nicely done.
I shalll be letting my younger brothers borrow this
