| George's Secret Key to the Universe | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking
Creator: Garry Parsons
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1707
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0385611811
EAN: 9780385611817
ASIN: 0385611811
Publication Date: September 13, 2007
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Buy this for your children December 9, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My 10 year old read this quicker and with more enthusiasm than most of his previous books. A great page turner and educational as well. What more could you want?
Great for young minds November 2, 2007
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
My son, who has just turned 8, literally devoured this book from cover to cover in the space of about a week during his half term holiday. This might not be amazing to some people but he has never before read a story book himself, having the attention span of a gnat, he usually prefers information books and comics. So I was delighted when he chose this book for himself and every night he went to bed to read the next exciting chapter of this book. This book obviously ticked all the right boxes for him, enough of a story to keep the characters alive, with a great smattering of facts and figures about space, the universe, planets etc and lots of other things to capture the imagination of a fact-hungry 8 year old !
Further Than You've Ever Gone Before October 30, 2007
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I wish this book had been around when I was a kid devouring everything about stars and planets that I could lay my hands on. The story itself is nothing special, but it's full of fascinating and inspiring information, woven so neatly into the narrative that readers will hardly be aware that they are learning.
Illustrations are scattered liberally throughout the text, in the form of both amusing pen-and-ink sketches and breathtaking photographs of astronomical phenomena. The reach of the book is truly universal, going much further than the familiar tour of the Solar System and even taking in the latest developments in our understanding of black holes. To explain a black hole clearly and comprehensively to primary school children is quite an achievement.
There's no dumbing down of the science - children's curiosity and intellectual development are respected throughout. A brilliant gift for young fans of Doctor Who - there's more than a touch of Tennant geek chic about Eric, the bespectacled, gangly Professor with wild hair and an amazing computer who moves in next door to George and shows him there's more to life than his parents' eco-activism and his pet pig.
Great for the young, and not so young September 27, 2007
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this. It was a great introduction to the universe, though it focused more on the solar system than the universe as a whole. The fact boxes are really useful too.
The concept of Cosmos the computer being able to create doors to the universe is really cool. And it is a very gripping read! always be careful around black holes!
The name dropping of Hawking radiation was nicely done.
I shall be letting my younger brothers borrow this
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