# A Song for the Cosmos - Hardcover

by **Jan Lower** (Author), **Gary Kelley** (Illustrator)

Blues guitarist Blind Willie Johnson led a hardscrabble life, but in 1977, NASA's Voyager spacecrafts were launched, each carrying a golden record to introduce planet Earth to the cosmos, and his song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" became the defining anthem. Weaving together elements of Johnson's biography with an account of how a team of astrophysicists, writers, and artists created the golden record for the Voyager mission, Jan Lower and Gary Kelley craft a tale that is itself _A Song for the Cosmos_.

**Number of Pages:** 32

**Dimensions:** 0.42 x 12.21 x 9.34 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** August 09, 2022

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Song for the Cosmos

**Interest Level:** Middle Grades, 4-8

**Reading Level:** 4.7

**Point Value:** 0.5

## Details

- **Price:** 18.99 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books by splitShops, Shopify Collective

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