The Skies Above My Eyes (Look Closer)

My class loved the layout, kept them interested

Discovered this book in the library and went on to buy the collection. Absolutely fantastic book and keeps my children fully engaged.

Lovely book

This is so beautifully presented and is fascinating for kids. It's put everything in perspective and they love it. My kids are 6 and 8 and they love it equally. I'm buying it now for birthday presents for their friends as you simply can't go wrong with this. Brilliant!

Amazing book... lots of interesting images and facts to discuss. Love how you can open it out and discover the skies. Innovative book. Highly recommend.

Superb. Great at superficial level for 3 year old, great with more detail for 6 year old. Highly recommend. A bit pricey but not your conventional book manufacturing process.

The Skies Above My Eyes is a concertina style book that opens up to over 2.5 metres in length! Starting at ground level in a busy city, when we look up we can see street signs, high rise buildings and window cleaners on a cradle. As we go higher and higher we see airplanes, rocket ships, satellites, the International Space Station, astronauts, the moon, all the way out to the solar system.And then we start to come back down to earth via the Milky Way and the Northern Lights and thunder storms. It also looks at how high some birds can fly – Ruppell’s griffon vulture can fly the highest – over 10km above the earth. Even Swans fly 8km above the earth! We then see hot air balloons, skydivers and end up on the forest floor staring up at sky.This is a really good idea for a book – the concertina pages make it a fun and exciting way to read and learn. Getting on the floor with your child and opening it out to the full length is loads of fun and may entice more reluctant readers to engage. There are lots of illustrations and facts and I’d imagine it is the sort of book that a child would be able to get something new from every time they looked. Even if they just enjoy looking at the pictures, I think there is still value in the book. And I have to admit, I learnt quite a bit too!I think age range would be 3+ for sharing, 5-7 for reading and enjoying independently.

Beautiful book. Have now bought 3 copies