Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is an inspiration! Her hugely successful academic career, commitment to exploring all things to do with space and her abilities to communicate complex ideas to children, are all evident in this book. This non-fiction text is presented as a ‘grand tour’ that children are invited to go on at the start of the book. The introduction provides an excellent overview of the Solar System as well as introducing Dr Maggie as the tour guide.These first few pages signpost children to the different features of the book, including ‘tour highlights’ that can be found in black circles; stats boxes for each planet and a really helpful section at the back of the book called the ‘Ship’s Database’. This is like an enhanced glossary with information set out clearly and accessibly, including a really useful list of ‘space words’, to which I referred regularly as I read the book. There is also a double-page spread entitled ‘how the tour works’ and this guides the reader in how the rest of the book is ordered…