A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space

It is a nice book and we will never get bored of it . Me and my children learnt a lot about people who helped to launching rockets and ASTRONAUTS

I bought this book because my daughter is one of the illustrators! I didn't have much interest in space but loved the short nuggets of information about each woman. As well as show casing what women can achieve it is a fabulous example of how science and art complement each other.Many of the women included had obvious professions such as engineer.doctor,mathematician but seamstress,actress,and textile worker are also in there. Inspiration to any woman that if you follow your gifts and talents and work hard anything is possible.Timely release given the focus on women's rights . It is a lovely gift for any female young or old.

My child loves this book.. it's very inspiring and an immediate hit

My daughter (7) and I often start our evening bedtime routine with one of the stories in here, we both love learning about these women’s lives so a nice one for adults too to feel like you’re learning and keep us interested! Beautifully written and illustrated too. My son is still only 4 but I look forward to reading it to him when he’s a bit older.

This book is great fun, and like some of the other books in this genre (Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls), has one page stories about women who have contributed to space exploration. When I was a child in the 80s and early 90s, I felt that we were being told that women could do anything men could do but the reason history was all about men was because women were excluded from the cool jobs. Now, with stories such as "Hidden Figures" coming out, it's clear that women have been involved in many fields over the centuries but often didn't get recognition, especially by historians who helped to perpetuate a male-dominant culture. The best part of this book to me, however, is not only the correction of this by highlighting women's contributions to space exploration, but the highlighting of so many different types of jobs available that would allow one to contribute to space exploration. I saw a NOVA program once on what it would take to get to Mars. One of the female scientists interviewed works on food preservation figuring out how the astronauts food could last them 6 years to Mars and 6 years back. The journalist leading the NOVA program tasted a porkchop that she had put in airtight packaging 8 years ago! Amazing and disappetizing all in one! The illustrations in the book vary in quality (similar to the other books in the genre). I would have preferred a more uniform style with higher quality control but the author has favored more individualized portraits.