Sightseeing with Aliens

Name: Sightseeing with Aliens
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781683694274
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A Totally Factual Field Guide to the Supernatural

By Insha Fitzpatrick

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Blast off with this illustrated guide to aliens, featuring extraterrestrial legends, weird science, and hands-on activities, perfect for middle grade nonfiction and sci-fi fans. Your journey into the supernatural continues in outer space! Uncover the history of alien sightings and space exploration, craft your own constellation,... Read More

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Blast off with this illustrated guide to aliens, featuring extraterrestrial legends, weird science, and hands-on activities, perfect for middle grade nonfiction and sci-fi fans.

Description

Blast off with this illustrated guide to aliens, featuring extraterrestrial legends, weird science, and hands-on activities, perfect for middle grade nonfiction and sci-fi fans.

Your journey into the supernatural continues in outer space! Uncover the history of alien sightings and space exploration, craft your own constellation, and more.

Incoming transmission... Are there aliens out there? What's the deal with Area 51? Can outer space support human life? Explore the extraterrestrial in Sightseeing with Aliens, a field guide for the curious and the adventurous. Get the download on:

Weird science and eye-opening history! Read up on humanity's forays into space and meet the Mars rover.
Fascinating accounts of alien encounters! What really happened in the 1947 Roswell Incident?
Out-of-this-world science fiction! Tune into iconic alien media, from H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds to Star Trek.

The third book in the Totally Factual Field Guide to the Supernatural series, Sightseeing with Aliens is a hilarious and unabashedly weird investigation into how the unknown can shape our lives. Get to know the extraterrestrial with fun illustrations and hands-on activities, like creating a time capsule and taking on the 7-Day Earthling Challenge to help Planet Earth. The whole galaxy is out there—grab your guide, and let's go!

For more on the supernatural, check out Hanging with Vampires and Chilling with Ghosts!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683694274

Publisher: Quirk Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 August 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Quirk Books

Illustration: Throughout

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 152.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 128

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Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Insha Fitzpatrick Penguin Books

About the Author

Insha Fitzpatrick is a New Jersey-based author who loves all things horror. She's the writer of Who Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott- Rosa Parks (Who HQ) and the coauthor of the graphic novel series Oh My Gods! for middle grade readers. When she's not writing, she's catching up on horror movies and reality TV. Lilla B lecz is a Hungarian graphic artist and illustrator whose passion is creating peculiar, thought-provoking, and mystical scenes and characters inspired by, among other things, nature and mythology.

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