New Stephen Hawking children’s book to be published next year

You and the Universe, adapted from his posthumous 2020 Earth Day message, will bring the late physicist's extraordinary work to life for readers of all ages'

A new children's picture book by Stephen Hawking is due to be published six years after the theoretical physicist's death.

You and the Universe, co-written by the late professor's daughter Lucy Hawking and illustrated by Xin Li, will inspire kids to ask the big questions about Earth and the cosmos", according to publisher Puffin.