★Fun astronomy science bedtime stories for kids from Otto Wichterle Prize winner of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Dr. Petr Brož! The stories are accompanied by a pair of worms representing human curiosity. Answer 70 interlocking "why"!
★7-10, English sample available.

Bedtime Space-Time is a richly illustrated book for inquisitive children and their parents who enjoy reading together before bedtime. The book is intended for children from 7 to 10 years of age. It is composed of 70 questions that take young boys and girls on an educational journey through the solar system and shares ways that scientists arrive at scientific knowledge. The aim of the book is to offer a comprehensive work that leads readers to an understanding of the fundamental geological processes that shape the world around us in a way that is accessible and understandable to children.

The book's storyline is designed as an interlocking chain of Why questions that gradually explain to readers some of the basic secrets of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and the moons Io, Enceladus and Europa, so that the knowledge gained can be used to understand some of the important processes operating here on Earth (specifically, global climate change, plate tectonics and the origins of life). The Why question always builds on the text of the previous question and imitates the endless questioning of a child when someone is explaining something to them.

Every Why question is accompanied by an expanding How question that provides a behind-the-scenes look into science. It does this by clarifying where our knowledge about certain processes comes from or how humanity has been able to achieve something in the study of the solar system.

One double-page spread is devoted to answering each question, with a textual explanation (about 1700 to 1900 characters long) and a detailed two-page illustration depicting the main thesis of the text. The book also includes 3 double-page illustrations intended to give readers an idea of the size of the solar system and the complexity of building a base in another part of it. At the same time, some of the questions encourage readers to be active by conducting simple experiments (magma production and volcanic eruptions) and to color their own planet. The stories are accompanied by a pair of worms representing human curiosity.

Dr. Petr Brož works as a scientist. He is a researcher of volcanic activity across the solar system. He specializes in Mars. Dr. Brož is also involved in the popularization of geosciences and enjoys finding new ways to bring the results of scientific research to the public. He is a laureate of the Otto Wichterle Award (2018) awarded to scientists of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic up to 35 years of age who have achieved extraordinary results, and he has also received the Josef, Maria and Zdenka Hlávka Endowment Award (2017) for talented students and young talented scientists up to 33 years of age who have demonstrated exceptional ability and creative thinking in their field.

Lucie Škodová graduated from the Private Secondary School of Art in Písek and from the University of Western Bohemia in Pilsen, where she studied art education and psychology. Since 2008, she has been fully
devoted to graphic design and illustration. She is the author of the logo with which the city of Pilsen won the candidacy for the European Capital of Culture 2015. Apart from graphic design, she focuses mainly on children's and popular science illustration. She cooperates with children's magazines and educational institutions (Mendel Museum, Masaryk University, the Czech Academy of Sciences). Interactive games with her illustrations were part of the South Moravian exposition at the World EXPO 2015 in Milan. Under her own brand Ajeejee, she also creates educational games and materials for children.