Touch the stars

Print/Braille edition.Nineteen new, carefully-rendered tactile illustrations by Creative Adaptations for Learning bring the excitement of the constellations, comets, meteor showers, and nebulae down to earth and onto the page. Seemingly visual concepts, like solar and lunar eclipses, become tangible through text and touch. Find out what the constellation Orion looks like, how the moon waxes and wanes, and just what happens during a lunar or solar eclipse. Discover the rings of Saturn and Jupiter's Great Red Spot. This handsome hardcover edition tells you all of the fascinating facts about how stars are formed and the patterns they make in the sky. Includes a print facsimile of the tactile illustrations for sighted readers.