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The Rocket Girl Chronicles

The Rocket Girl Chronicles

By (author) Andrew Rovenko
Contributions by Tom Morton-Smith

£35.00

Publishing 13th Apr 2026
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    • A true personal story: Heartwarming father-daughter project that began as one family's response to the world in crisis
    • Multiple award winner: including the Prix de la Photographie, Paris and a Gold Award at the Tokyo Photo Awards
    • Globally recognised: with exhibitions across the world, international news coverage and publications including Rolling Stone and Vogue
    • “The most amazing adventures were always waiting here, right in our backyard. As long as we remembered to bring along one magic ingredient: the power of imagination.” - Andrew Rovenko “
    • "The photographs are timeless and otherworldly. They cast Mia in her helmet and astronaut suit as an intrepid space traveller exploring an abandoned urban landscape.” - ABC News Australia
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    Step into the haunting chronicle of a small explorer in a strange world. As Melbourne endured an unprecedented lockdown, Australian photographer Andrew Rovenko captured his daughter, Mia, dressed in a homemade astronaut suit and helmet, navigating their familiar yet alien neighbourhood. This profoundly personal pandemic project quickly grew into a globally recognised photography series and now also a book, in which the story of the little astronaut reveals the surreal beauty found around us, as we still learn to look at the world differently, even years later.

    About the Author

    Andrew Rovenko is an Australian photographer with Ukrainian roots. In 2021, he was named Australian Photographer of the Year. Tom Morton-Smith is a British playwright and screenwriter. His award-winning adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s classic animation My Neighbour Totoro broke box office records, becoming the fastest selling show in the Barbican’s history, and opened to critical acclaim. Other plays of his include Oppenheimer, a play that charts the life of J Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb, written for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Ravens, a Cold War thriller set during the 1972 World Chess Championship. 

    Specifications
    Publisher
    Lannoo Publishers
    ISBN
    9789059963726
    Publish date
    13th Apr 2026
    Binding
    Hardback
    Territory
    World excluding Benelux France, Switzerland & Scandinavia
    Size
    245 mm x 190 mm
    Pages
    208 Pages
    Illustrations
    170 color, 20 b&w
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