Matt and Leo are in for a fantastic adventure filled with space facts in his clever flip-over comic that incorporates an unusual look-and-find component: background characters from one side of the book find themselves pulled through space and time to appear on the other side. See if you can follow their stories from beginning to end!
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great book. Add some girls please!
By Audrey Hepburn
My daughter adores this book from the library and has it memorized so I am on amazon to get if for her as well as the author's other book. Wonderful but next time if you could please add a few more girls in space it would be very appreciated. There really are girls out there that love space despite nobody in publishing, TV, or movies seeming to notice that they are interested in anything but princesses. I worry about the message sent to my daughter if the only female character is a dog -- even though it's a smart dog ;)
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
We enjoyed the first Leo Geo very much and were looking ...
By T Austin
We enjoyed the first Leo Geo very much and were looking forward to this one. While the illustrations are on a par with the first effort, the science here is simply awful. It's not that things are left out, it's that bad inaccurate information is given that will confuse and mislead a child. Worst of all, it would have been so easy to get right. Where was the editor?Here are some examples:- astronaut centrifuge: the simulated gravity is toward the outside, not down to the ground. Rotate the car 90 degrees and it's right.- the Space Shuttle used liquid HYDROGEN as fuel, not nitrogen.- rocket stages have traditionally been thrown away, disintegrating from atmospheric forces on re-entry into the atmosphere and falling as mangled debris into the ocean. Shuttle solid boosters were recovered, but they were an extreme exception and were very hard to refurbish. SpaceX is working on landing a booster, but on a dry surface. Salt water does enormous damage to rockets and spacecraft.- ISS orbits at 400km/250miles altitude- several key components of ISS were constructed by Russia and delivered by their rockets, not by Shuttle- at the most distant point in its orbit, the Moon is 251,351 miles from Earth, not 235,000- the side of the Moon that points away from Earth is the FAR side, not the "dark" side. There is nothing darker about that side that the one that faces Earth. Perpetuating this misnomer does a disservice to children.- the gravitational force at the event horizon of a black hole is a function of its size. It can be comparatively low.- gravitational compression in a black hole makes things occupy less space, it does not magically turn them into "a couple of molecules"- The Moon's gravity is 1/6 that of Earth, not 1/11, so you could jump six times farther on the Moon, assuming you were not wearing a space suit.- freezing a comet would make it cold, not cause it to stop moving. Its momentum would be unaltered by its change in temperature.Well, that's half the book. I'll leave you to sort out the other half!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
This is a fantastic book for kids who love science
By Matthew Nigrelli
This is a fantastic book for kids who love science, especially if you're a fan of the first Leo Geo book which is equally great. Book arrived on time and in great condition. Couldn't be happier with the purchase.
