Our Picture Book of the Week once again demonstrates that non-fiction books can be just as vital a part of a child's reading journey as fiction - in this fascinating glimpse beneath the waves with an awesome slice of scientific brilliance.

"Professor Astro Cat's Deep-Sea Voyage" once again teams up Dr Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman for a truly amazing look at our oceans.

How did our oceans form?

How did life evolve in the deepest, darkest and coldest depths of the sea?

With truly glorious illustrations, and fabulous facts woven into each page spread, it's great to see this series going from strength to strength, covering a subject that we have seen many times before in children's non fiction books but in a new and totally attractive and engaging way.

The Prof and his awesome crew set sail in their fabulous research ship to find out all about the oceans. Teeming with life from mighty blue whales to fierce sharks, wibbly-wobbly jellyfish and amazing octopuses, there's so much to take in that it's a book that will keep kids completely immersed and occupied for ages.

It's also destined to become a classroom favourite, perfect as the basis for class projects about our oceans - and of course also brilliant for the ways it talks about the damage we're doing to our seas, from microplastics to pollution, and the death of our coral beds due to tourism and global warming. Utterly brilliant, and a welcome addition to the Professor Astro Cat series.

Sum this book up in a sentence: A non-fiction book of the highest quality, brilliantly produced and presented by the dream team of Dr Dom and Ben, with a host of engaging characters showing us what lies beneath the choppy waves of our oceans.

"Professor Astro Cat's Deep-Sea Voyage" by Dr Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman is out now, published by Flying Eye Books (kindly supplied for review)

It's time to jet off into the stratosphere with that intrepid knowledgable fellow Professor Astro Cat!

We're taking a trip to an incredible destination with intrepid Professor Astro Cat and his crew. But this time we're not jetting off into space...more like Inner Space!

Flying Eye, we've got to talk. If this carries on, people will say we're in love...!

Once again the fabulous publisher of innovative children's book titles nails our Book of the Week slot, with a book that could almost have been custom made for us. We've previously made no secret of our space geekery. We've previously told you how much we love books that mix together cool characters with a good dose of facts and figures about our favourite subject. We've also probably told you how we love wonderful retro artwork that instantly makes a book feel like it absolutely has to have a place on your shelf, in your hands, and tucked under your pillow at night.

(Can you tell we love this book yet? Can you?)

Take a trip in the Professor's awesome flying saucer!

Professor Astro Cat is our guide on a journey around the stratosphere. Starting with the big bang, and bringing us right up to the present day with the fantastic Mars Rover, "Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of Space" is utterly chock full of the most wondrous illustrations, suffused with facts and figures that are kid-friendly but don't attempt to dumb things down.

We find out how the sun erupted into being, how the solar system formed, and why poor Pluto (or Polluto as Charlotte calls it) is no longer classed as a planet.

Awesome animal characters help the Professor explain the intricacies of space

The book came with some fabulous art cards (including a wonderful diagram of the Apollo Missions space suit - which you'll also find in the book), gorgeous Prof Astro Cat wrapping paper (which I've pinched and hidden away!) and a tote bag which I've been proudly toting around as our main book-carrying bag. Really though the galaxy-spanning star of the show is the book which truly does make space-curious youngsters even more curious to find out more about the inky black void our little blue planet floats around in.

Charlotte's best bit: Reading the book with Grandad, who loves all things spacey himself!

Daddy's Favourite bit: Perfectly pitched, beautifully written, wonderfully illustrated. Feel like this is becoming our mantra when describing Flying Eye books but if you're looking for a range of titles to stuff into a stocking - or the perfect book for would-be astronauts, you need look no further than this gorgeous gorgeous book

(Kindly sent to us for review by Bounce Marketing / Flying Eye Books)