The Stargazer's Guide to the Galaxy

by Q.L. Pearce, Mary Ann Fraser (Illustrator)

There are monsters up in the sky. Fire-Breathing Dragons. Ferocious Lions. Deadly Scorpions. Killer Whales.

There are brave heroes in the sky. Mysterious Pulsing Stars. Desolate Planet. Exploding Suns. Far Galaxies.

The Stargazer's Guide to the Galaxy is all you need to enter the exciting world waiting for you in the night sky!

You'll find plenty of easy-to-follow star maps to help you spot constellations like Draco the Dragon, the Big Dipper, the Zodiac signs and more! The maps shows the Northern and Southern hemispheres in each season, for year-round star-gazing no matter where you live!

Read the exciting tales, myths and legends that gave the constellations their names!

Learn fascinating facts about the wonders of space and our galaxy, and about the scientists who discovered them!

Let The Stargazer's Guide to the Galaxy be your ticket to a wild and wonderful trip through space from right in your own backyard!

Genres: School

64 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 15, 1991

About the author

Best selling author and expert on all things that go bump in the night, Q. L. Pearce began her career as a writer and editor in 1985 with Lowell House / Roxbury Press in Los Angeles. She has since written more than one hundred and twenty books for children, including eight collections of scary stories for middle grade and film tie-in books for the Fox animated film Titan AE and the Universal animated series Land Before Time. Q believes strongly in the value of scary books for young readers. When asked what credentials she has which qualify her as an expert in this area she replies, "I was a child once. That was very scary."