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40 pp.
| Putnam |
May, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-399-23214-1$$15.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Michael Chesworth.
Using an alphabetic format, this book takes readers on an imagined space flight to Mars. Cartoonlike illustrations show an eight-person multinational crew boarding the rocket, experiencing zero-gravity, living in the spacecraft, and exploring the planet. Basic information about space missions and Mars is conveyed in information boxes on each page. A "Mars A-B-Cyclopedia" at the end of the book offers more facts. Glos.