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32 pp.
| Walker |
May, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8027-2790-9$16.99
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Illustrated by
Alex Ayliffe.
Preschoolers will be attracted to Ayliffe’s brightly colored collage illustrations, which combine a friendly cartoon style with recognizable details. Mayo's descriptions of space exploration technologies from lunar rovers to the space shuttle, as well as the astronauts who work them, emphasize repetitive action verbs ("robot spacecraft are good at speed, speed, speeding").