Hansen, Rosanna

Describes four animal heroes: Ginny, a dog who helps cats; Scarlett, a cat who rescued her kittens from a fire; Lulu, a pig who found help for her ill owner; and Dorado, a guide dog who led his owner out of the collapsing World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Describes the place of our solar system in the Milky Way galaxy and some of the constellations that can be seen from Earth.

Describes how miniature horses can be trained to guide the blind, and describes how Panda, a guide horse for Ann Edie, helps Ann across busy streets, into cars and trains, and other places.

Introduces the activities of humans in space, including the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, Shannon Lucid's work on the Russian space station Mir, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Voyager missions to Jupiter and Saturn.

Explains how astronauts train, what they experience in space, how they perform their jobs, and other related topics.

Presents a children's book for early readers that describes four mysteries about space including sun spots, life on the planet Mars, a fireball that fell to earth in 1908, and the spiral canyons on Mars.

Rosanna Hansen describes her experiences working at a nature reserve owned by the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia, Africa, and shares what she learned about the endangered animals and what is being done to protect them.