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Roaring rockets

Roaring rockets

by Tony Mitton, Ant Parker

1997Rockets (Aeronautics)Juvenile literatureExplorationMachinery, juvenile literatureMachinery
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First lines

Rockets have power.

About this book

A simple explanation of how space rockets work, where they travel, and what they do.

Themes & subjects

Rockets (Aeronautics)Juvenile literatureExplorationMachinery, juvenile literatureMachinerySpace ships
First published 1997

Setting

Outer space

About the author

Tony Mitton
Tony Mitton

1951 – 2022-06-18

Tony Mitton was born in 1951 in North Africa, the son of a soldier. As a child he lived in Africa, Germany and Hong Kong. At the age of 9 he went to state boarding school in Suffolk and went on receive a degree in English Literature from Cambridge University. Upon graduating, he trained to become a primary school teacher. He worked as a primary school teacher between the ages of 25 to 49, working part-time and writing part-time for for the last 13 years of that period. He now writes full-time. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children.

Authors

Tony Mitton, Ant Parker

First published

1997

Pages

24

Read time

≈ 1h

Editions

8

Language

English

Publisher

Kingfisher

ISBN

9780753403518

Where to buy

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