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Thank you to NetGalley, Random House Children's Books, Random House Children's Books for Young Readers, Mary Pope Osborne, and Will Osborne for the opportunity to read this graphic novel in exchange for an honest review.

While there are young reader books that are non-fiction companions to the fictional Magic Tree House Series, this offers a unique look at the facts. The facts are told by Annie and Jack in a chronological way in a comic book format, so they have dialogue bubbles and the people and term's being discussed are visual representations of reality. This is a great way to offer non-fiction in a differentiated way.

This volume is the second installment and focuses on astronomy. It explores the scientific findings and history, the vastness of universe and galaxies, the sun, our solar system and planets, and space travel and technology.

While I feel rather knowledgeable about the history and study of astronomy, there are details about the planets I didn't know about, which heightened my own reading experience for this book. I enjoyed the information about how Uranus spins and the related theories, as well as the updated information regarding Pluto.

This book is such a fun way for young readers to explore nonfiction on the topic of space!

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