The Horn Book Guide

TECHNOLOGY

Getz, David

Life on Mars

85 pp. | Holt | November, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-8050-7729-4 $14.95
New ed. (1997)

(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Peter McCarty. In Getz's second-person narrative, "you" are part of a Mars mission crew learning about space exploration, speculating on what's beneath the Martian crust, and calculating the costs of this venture. An added "Update" discusses President Bush's advocacy of future space explorations. Black-and-white photographs and drawings illustrate the text, which has a casual quality not altogether suited to the content. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian