Ages 6-8 - 20 pages, 1541 words | 13 minutes of reading | © Éditions du Ricochet, 2014, for the 1st publication - all rights reserved
Children lift off from Earth in a kind of glassy spaceship shaped like a planet, containing a miniature model of our world inside. They set out to discover space and its wonders. Along the way, they encounter both the present world and the past, as well as the unsettling future of our galaxy.
In this highly colorful book presented as an adventure, there’s an accessible documentary for everyone: young children will find vibrant illustrations and enjoy spotting the explorers' ship on each page, while older readers will gain a better understanding of celestial phenomena. The journey fluidly moves from the history of our understanding of astronomy to the Big Bang, the naming of constellations, and ultimately to the end of Earth and an explanation of its foreseeable demise… but without fear, as this won’t happen anytime soon, and perhaps by then, our world will have found a new planet to inhabit. At least, this is the suggestion of this documentary, which ends with Lavoisier's famous maxim: "Nothing is lost, nothing is created… everything is transformed…"