Dimensions
216 x 279 x 8mm
Inspired by the life of Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer.
Maria's wish burns as brightly as a star . . .
Maria longs to be an astronomer and imagines all the strange worlds she can travel to by looking though her papa's telescope. One night Maria gets her chance to look through the telescope. For the first time, she sees the night sky stretching endlessly above her, and her dream of exploring constellations seems close enough to touch.
In this beautiful first-person account, Deborah Hopkinson lyrically articulates a child's longing to study the stars, an aspiration which eventually led the real Maria Mitchell to be the first American woman to discover a comet.
