Close Up and Far Out

＂An illustrated picture book of early scientists Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Galileo Galilei, who used similar observation tools but saw the world very differently, their discoveries leading to innovations in both microscopes and telescopes.＂ --

Mary Auld is an award-winning children’s author, with interests ranging from music and art to history and science. Her books include How to Build an Orchestra, written in association with the London Symphony Orchestra, which won a Presto Music Award. She divides her time between Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, UK and Perpignan, France.