Look up into a clear night sky and soon enough, you’ll see a dot of light zip past. It’s not a shooting star—it’s a satellite.
Every day, thousands of satellites orbit the Earth doing important jobs. Meet NOAA, Galileo, Aura, James Webb, and more, and find out about their special missions to connect, inform, and protect all of us on planet Earth.
Satellites introduces children to smart satellite technology and all the ways satellites monitor the planet’s health and help us take action. The book uniquely combines Earth science and the latest space tech and is designed to fascinate and reassure. It includes a multitude of news-related themes: climate change, deforestation, wildlife tracking, storm/fire warnings, military maneuvres, exploration, new spaceports, space junk, and more. Satellite tech is at the forefront of the modern space race. There has never been a better time to learn about our ‘eyes in the sky.’
Kate Peridot is an author of both fiction and nonfiction children’s stories who lives with her family in the south of France. She has worked as a brand manager for food companies, a publicity officer for charities, and a freelance writer for magazines. Kate studied creative writing at The London School of Journalism, Curtis Brown Creative, and as a member of SCBWI.
In 2014, her children’s story, The Elephant Carnival, won a Walker Books Animal Stories competition for 4- to 7-year-olds. In 2015 she won the Winchester Festival, First Pages of a Novel award for a YA concept.
Her debut nonfiction Caring Conservationists will be published by Walker Books in 2022.
View titles by Kate Peridot
Look up into a clear night sky and soon enough, you’ll see a dot of light zip past. It’s not a shooting star—it’s a satellite.
Every day, thousands of satellites orbit the Earth doing important jobs. Meet NOAA, Galileo, Aura, James Webb, and more, and find out about their special missions to connect, inform, and protect all of us on planet Earth.
Satellites introduces children to smart satellite technology and all the ways satellites monitor the planet’s health and help us take action. The book uniquely combines Earth science and the latest space tech and is designed to fascinate and reassure. It includes a multitude of news-related themes: climate change, deforestation, wildlife tracking, storm/fire warnings, military maneuvres, exploration, new spaceports, space junk, and more. Satellite tech is at the forefront of the modern space race. There has never been a better time to learn about our ‘eyes in the sky.’
Author
Kate Peridot is an author of both fiction and nonfiction children’s stories who lives with her family in the south of France. She has worked as a brand manager for food companies, a publicity officer for charities, and a freelance writer for magazines. Kate studied creative writing at The London School of Journalism, Curtis Brown Creative, and as a member of SCBWI.
In 2014, her children’s story, The Elephant Carnival, won a Walker Books Animal Stories competition for 4- to 7-year-olds. In 2015 she won the Winchester Festival, First Pages of a Novel award for a YA concept.
Her debut nonfiction Caring Conservationists will be published by Walker Books in 2022.
View titles by Kate Peridot
