Ferrie, Chris.
Summary: Provides an introduction to rocket science, presenting such topics as lift and thrust with simple text and illustrations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Board Books, Call number: BRDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE FERLock, Deborah
Summary: Looks at the science behind rockets and rocketry, with experiments to try at home that demonstrate the principles involved.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LOCMitton, Tony
Summary: Get ready for blast-off to learn all about rockets! Roaring Rockets follows the animal crew as they become astronauts heading to the Moon. Each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids will love: spacesuits, oxygen helmets, the lunar lander, and much more!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRDDrozd, Anne
Summary: "Meet the visionary physicists, chemists, engineers, and entertainers (as well as mice, bears, tortoises, and more) who took rockets from illuminations in the sky to the most powerful vehicles ever known. You'll also find out how using a gyroscope, swinging on a swing set, and spraying water from a garden hose are the keys to understanding space travel"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629 DROSummary: Jack Parsons is a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker of 1930s Los Angeles who started as a janitor at a chemical factory but had fantastical dreams that led him to birth the unknown discipline of American rocketry. Along the way, he fell into a mysterious world that included sex magic rituals at night, and he became a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley. Parsons used Crowley's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020