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Kid Detectives: An Astonishing Astronaut Adventure

Adam Bushnell, Author

John Haslam, Illustrator

Series: Kid Detectives

Imprint: Wayland

Publication date: November 13, 2025

Category: Science: general interest

ISBN: 9781526330291

Series: Kid Detectives

Imprint: Wayland

Publication date: September 24, 2026

Category: Science: general interest

ISBN: 9781526330321

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.

Our Kid Detectives Isla, Farah, Sam and Mohammad are at Space Camp and following a group of astronauts in training. Unfortunately their lead astronaut keeps experiencing some problems with her equipment and activities. She’s the top in her class – what could be causing such trouble now?

Join the Detective gang as they attempt to work out the issues at Space Camp. Can they save the day?

Featured interactive elements:
Looking for clues in the illustrations
Comparing your weight on different planets
Spot the difference between two astronaut suits
Gathering crucial information from information panels about gravity, famous space missions and spacecraft

Through interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.

Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Adam Bushnell

Adam is a former teacher who turned his hand to writing full time in 2007. He has written both adult teaching guides and children’s fiction books and is often touring schools and libraries and running creative writing sessions. He lives in Durham.

John Haslam

John Haslam has been working as an illustrator for most of his professional life. John worked in advertising for 10 years and worked on various projects including TV storyboards, to illustrating for all kinds of accounts from Pritt Stick (the Pritt Stick Man was his invention), to comic pages such as Danger Mouse, Disney and Transformers.