CALLING ALL YOUNG EXPLORERS! HIDDEN IN AND AROUND THE GREEN SPACES OF MANCHESTER’S LIBRARIES WILL BE 500 COPIES OF DAME MAGGIE ADERIN-POCOCK’S AM I MADE OF STARDUST? LYING IN WAIT TO BE FOUND.

How to take part: drop into the Portico Library during our opening times, pick up an activity sheet and get a clue to where the book may be hidden.

Find out more here.

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock PhD is a space scientist whose passion is presenting science to an audience and demonstrating that you ‘don’t need a brain the size of a small planet’ to understand, participate in and enjoy science.

She studied at Imperial College London, where she obtained her degree in Physics and her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. She has spent her career making novel, bespoke instrumentation in both the industrial and academic environments including working on the James Webb Space Telescope and various satellite monitoring climate change.

Dame Maggie says, “Libraries are such amazing places to fuel your rocket and jet off into all the places books can take you, for families to get together, and spend time having fun together. To take part in Look For A Book, follow your local Manchester library on social media to get the clues, then head out to parks, schools, libraries near you to get your hands on your copy and get exploring.”

As well as public speaking she is a bafta nominated TV presenter, co-hosting the world’s longest-running science television program The Sky at Night, which parents might recognise! Her exciting book Am I Made of Stardust? recently won the Royal Society book prize.