Stem Adventures: The Amazing Story of Space Travel

Description

Dozens of astronauts travel to space every year but what makes these amazing trips possible Max Axiom has the answers. Join Max as he explores the science and engineering behind space travel.

Joe has illustrated for Marvel and DC Comics, and has the distinction of penciling the most #1 issues featuring SPIDER-MAN and/or the Spider-Man family. Joe and the Pop Art Properties Studio also work in the fields of commercial illustration, intellectual property design and storyboards for Animation and Video Games. Clients have included MTV, Capstone, Discovery Channel, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Sony, PBS, The Amazing Kreskin and Activision. He is the co-creator and illustrator of the FABIEN COUSTEAU EXPEDITIONS, a graphic novel series released in 2019. Joe's publishing company, Astronaut Ink, highlights his own creator-owned properties BOLD BLOOD, MEGAHURTZ(R) and most recently NEW ZODIAX. Websites www.astronautink.com www.popartproperties.com Agnieszka Biskup is a writer and editor based in Chicago. She is a former science editor at the Boston Globe as well as a Knight Fellow at MIT, where she studied science journalism. She served as managing editor of the children's magazine Muse and has written numerous children's books in addition to many articles for newspapers, magazines, and websites. Her books have received awards from Learning magazine, the Association of Educational Publishers, the Society of School Librarians International, and have been chosen as Junior Library Guild selections. She is also a winner of the 2015 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award in the Writing for Children category.

Max Axiom, super scientist and Laurence Fishburne lookalike, returns to explain more modern-tech wonders in this fresh set of graphic novel-style episodes. . . .students with writing assignments will get plenty of help from the lucid explanations, clearly labeled diagrams, and end matter, which includes additional facts and critical-thinking questions.-- "School Library Journal"