Agnes Giberne was a prolific British author who wrote fiction with moral or religious themes for children and also books on astronomy for young people.
Background
Educated by governesses in Europe and England after her father Major Charles Giberne retired from service in India, Agnes Giberne started publishing didactic novels and short stories with improving themes under her initials Attorney - General, some of it for the Religious Tract Society.
Career
Later she used her full name for her fiction, for her well-received works on astronomy and the natural world, and for her biography of the children"s writer Charlotte Maria Tucker. Most of her writing was done before 1910. Her popular illustrated book Sun, Moon and Stars: Astronomy for Beginners (1879), with a foreword by Oxford Professor of Astronomy, Charles Pritchard, was printed in several editions on both sides of the Atlantic, and sold 24,000 copies in its first 20 years.
Later she wrote a book called "Among the Stars" which, as Giberne explains in the Introduction, is a version of "Sun, Moon and Stars" for younger children.
lieutenant is about a boy called Ikon who is very interested in the stars. He meets a Professor who explains more about the stars and solar system to Ikon.
Young Folks" Library, Volume XI (of 20) by Various at Project Gutenberg
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by Various at Project Gutenberg
The World"s Foundations or Geology for Beginners.