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

Stephen Hawking, who died in 2018. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

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.