Rockets & Spaceships

From a balloon rocket to bases on the Moon

A bilingual English and Spanish coloring book about how rockets and spaceships work

Forty large drawings to color follow rockets to space and back: inside a rocket engine, launch day, the first satellite, life on the space station, robots on Mars and ideas for the future. On the back of every drawing, a short read-together page explains how it works in English and Spanish, side by side, with three words to learn.

• Inside a Rocket Engine

  One tank holds fuel, the other liquid oxygen, so the fuel can burn even in space, where there is no air.

• Liftoff!

  As the engines roar, a flood of water pours onto the launch pad to soak up the noise and shaking.

• The Sky Crane

  A platform with rocket engines hovers over Mars and lowers the rover gently on three strong cables.

• A Base on the Moon

  Near the Moon's south pole, future explorers could turn ice into drinking water, air and rocket fuel.

Color, read, and learn together

• Six Places, from Earth to Deep Space

  A card on every coloring page shows where the action is: Earth, Sky, Orbit, Moon, Mars or Deep Space.

• Try It with an Adult

  Eight simple activities, like a balloon rocket on a string, turn the science into play. Three words to learn per drawing make 120 key words.

• A Junior Space Engineer Diploma

  At the end of the trip, children earn their diploma, design their own rocket and use a mini glossary.

A note from Jaime: to space and back

Every astronaut, engineer and scientist in this book started as a curious child. As an architect and a father, I wanted to show how real rockets work, from a balloon on a string to a base on the Moon. Color one drawing, turn the page, and read together how it flies. The next question is yours.

Jaime Magalhães Júnior