Children's Space Books Books

While waiting to go into a banquet at a Secular Humanist conference, a man with the name tag: Daniel Altschuler, Arecibo P.R. caught my interest. Inside we shared a table where he told me of his book and I told him of mine, "Concepts: A ProtoTheist Quest for Science-Minded Skeptics". I had copies of mine with me and gave him one but he didn't, so I ordered one from Amazon. It was a propitious encounter indeed; he's very personable and knowledgeable.

As part of a larger context, my book devotes only some 40 pages (with no graphics) to the evolution of the Universe, Sun, Earth and Life. Altschuler devotes 240 pages interspersed with many colored photos and drawings. I highly recommend reading his fuller descriptions and explanations from the Big Bang, thru star, planet and asteroid formation, to the emergence of Life and the prospect of our foolish arrogance extinguishing it. I found his book both entertaining and enlightening.

Children Of The Stars: Our Origin, Evolution And Destiny by Daniel R. Altschuler (Director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center's Arecibo Observatory) is a marvelously presented scientific tour through the mysteries of the cosmos, looking at what science has to say about how we came to be here, and whether we are alone in the universe. Written in plain terms easily accessible to the non-specialist general reader, and illustrated with beautiful color drawings and photographs, Children Of The Stars is a remarkable and enthusiastically recommended vision of galactic enigmas and beyond. Highly recommended for personal, school, and community library astronomy reference collections.

A friend gave me a copy of Altschuler's book "Children of the Stars". Once I started reading it, it dawns on me that this guy can write. It is a bit of a tour de forces on the scientific foundations of the natural world, but written with clarity, a sense of humor and a great deal of passion. His prose is eminently readable, and I swear I sensed some of Gould, Dawkins, and Alan Lightman ability to describe while preserving focus. This is a book for the scientist and the scientist at heart. The author goes from the first few seconds of the universe to the wanders of molecular biology, showing the threads that ties it all into a unified entity, nature.

From the rising of a beautiful sunny summer day, and enjoying life, to looking up at the stars, and seeing them in a different light. This book was very enjoyable. Most books on Astronomy, Evolution, Atmosphere, Geophysics etc. are basically just that, one subject matter and lightly cover over all others. In this book we are first taken on a journey of those that have contributed in most fields of science from the ground up as well as to the extremes of the universe. It brings to
mind the responsibility that all mankind has and how all mankind should have at least a basic knowledge of the sciences. It also becomes apparent that people have become unconcerned or
disinterested in what goes on, on our beautiful planet, and this magnificent universe that we are privileged to be a part of. This book should be read by professionals as well as those who know very little about the sciences. It could very well change peoples mind for the better, and get them interested in real science instead of dwelling on the fictional part of it. Hopefully, after reading this book people will come to realize that they also have a part to play in the world of science. It reminds us that it is time for each one of us to be responsible citizens of the world.

I highly recommend this book! I really enjoyed the first book in this series, but this book was even better! I don't know why this series isn't more popular, it is original, creative and hard to put down! I would recommend this book to anyone liking fantasy and even people who just enjoy good fiction.

This is fantastic book. In this one you get to find out all about Arkarian and his past. I can wait to read The Key.

I really fell in love with this series, Arkarian is still my favorite character. This authur is so creative and realistic enough to make you think it is possible. I must have

Well, for me, The Dark is a really good novel by Marianne Curley. She surprised me with twists in the book that I didn't expect at all. The plot isn't just to continue with the first one, it is as interesting as its predecessor. The new things I learned about Isabel and Ethan's worlds are very interesting, too. But to understand most of it you have to read the first novel, though.... There were unexpected decisions which the characters made, and somehow i felt cautious of what is to happen because of these events. However, I am still enthralled by the ending, and the 'hidden truths' it disclosed. That made me want to learn more about what's to happen in the third book. Even after I read the book I just got stuck with it; my mind was immersed in the world that Curley has built. And that, for me, is the sign that the book is a great read.

I didn't see the book myself, as I had it shipped directly to her for her birthday. But, her mom has said the pictures are just spectacular, and very educational. For those of you who have kids that are interested in the planets, I would recommend this book. It's something they can keep forever.

My 4 1/5 year old is crazy about space so I bought this book for him. The pictures are larger than life with tremendous clarity. The text is easy to read and understand, although I would say the text is aimed more at 7 - 10 years old. My 4 1/5 year old seems to understand most of the text as I review it with him and re-explain it. The book is well organized starting with the planets in our solar system, then moving to the galaxies, the life and death of stars, and space exploration. This is an excellent beginning space book for children or adults who want a quick overview of the solar system and galaxies.

This book is for space lovers of ALL AGES! You will be blown away by this book. I have been fascinated with astronomy and space photography since birth and have looked at countless books and none of them measured up to what I wanted until I found this! Now you no longer have to search for the ultimate space photography book; I did the searching for you! You won't find a better book if you journeyed a lightyear! But just think of all you'd see! LOL!

Here are the contents: STARGAZERS, THE SOLAR SYSTEM, THE SUN, ECLIPSES, MERCURY, VENUS, EARTH, THE MOON, MAN ON THE MOON, MARS, EXPLORING MARS, JUPTITER, JUPITER'S MOONS, SATURN, URANUS, NEPTUNE, PLUTO & CHARON, COMETS & ASTEROIDS, STAR BIRTH, STAR DEATH, THE MILKY WAY, GALAXIES, THE UNIVERSE, ROCKETS, THE SPACE SHUTTLE, LIVING IN SPACE, SPACE STATIONS, SATELLITES, IS ANYONE OUT THERE?, SPACE DATA AND INDEX.

My personal favorite chapters are: The Solar System, each planet, Comets & Asteroids, Star Birth and Star Death (extremely beautiful and fascinating); The Milky Way, Galaxies, The Universe, Is Anyone Out There? and Space Data.

You have to own this book! Buy it now! I give this my highest rating! Everything is perfect--not just the photography, but the succinct information and page layout. Also the book is the perfect size for the photographs! I can't find ANY fault in this book!

I wish I could meet and shake hands with everyone involved in the making of this awesome book! If every book were as good as this one, I would have a book in my face for the rest of my life!

What more could I say! The photos are fantastic! The info is current to 1999. The book being oversized only enhanced the outstanding photography. Real photos from the Space Shuttle, satellite photos. There is one of Mt. Everest that makes it look like a tiny hill. Amazing! The books goes planet by planet showing at the lower left it's size as compared to earth. Great for school or homeschool or just looking! It's a great bang for the buck! If you love space, it's packs an amazing punch!

Do you know how old the universe is, why our galaxy is called the Milky Way, or why Venus is the smartest planet in the night sky? Do you know how far away outer space really is, if you could stand on Jupiter, or catch a shooting star? The answer to these and many other similar questions, can be found in Kenneth Davis' marvelous, fact filled, Don't Know Much About the Solar System. This is a book chock full of interesting information, fun facts and trivia and history about the universe, galaxy, solar system, planets, moons, asteroids, meteoroids, comets, stars, space exploration and astronomy. Mr Davis' text is written in an easy to read, question and answer, conversational style and complemented by Pedro Martin's humorous and engaging illustrations, that just add to the fun. Perfect for youngsters 8-12, Don't Know Much About the Solar System whets the appetite and leaves kids running to the library for more. So find out if there are aliens living on Mars, and enjoy!

The illustrations and photos are terrific. It is jam packed with information.

Nice book for a teaching your kids.

My six year old and 11 year old fact nuts sat spellbound for an hour and a half as I read this book with them, and it kept my interest as well.

The fun but factual text is interspersed with cute cartoons that my six year old enjoyed, and which helped fix certain ideas in all of our memories.

The only drawback...they wouldn't let me stop reading it!

I can't wait to try out Don't Know Much About Geography.

This is a wonderful and entertaining science fiction read that will be appealing to all ages. The story moves quickly and is a perfect read-aloud selection for a classroom setting. I loved the premise of the story, travel through a wormhole, and how our planet Earth and the alien planet were slightly similar but had distinct characteristics. Well done!!

I would definitely buy this book as a gift for any girls I know. It's a great read - interesting and suspenseful. The plot follows a really creative adventure, with unexpected twists and exciting confrontations. But the highlight of the book is its protagonist, a 16-year-old girl. She's smart and headstrong, and a little bit naive. Her growth, as she begins to understand how to handle responsibility, is just as engaging as the adventurous plot. Perhaps best of all is that the adults in her life take her seriously, a fact that all young readers will appreciate.

A well-written and absorbing novel that is especially appropriate for an adolescent/young teen audience, though enjoyable for adults as well. Carefully crafted characters take the reader on an intergalactic rescue mission set in 2064. In addition to space travel and worm hole theory, the book touches on larger themes of civil liberties, political oppression and even genetic cloning! A fast-paced, engaging book - hopefully not the last from Judith Joy!

A wonderful, imaginative work of science fiction, which will appeal to a wide age-range - probably aimed at the middle-school set, but enjoyable for upper elementary ages as well as teens and adults. I particularly enjoyed the creative imagery (the amphibious but human-like aliens, the floating vendor stalls in a watery world)and the attention to futuristic details. I also appreciated the subtly implied messages on the topics of freedom vs tyranny, civil liberties and "human" dignity. A very entertaining read, with some good observations on human nature and contemporary society, as well as fun speculations on future worlds!

I looked at the book Draw 50 Aliens. I thought it was a good book because it has easy steps for drawing the aliens and UFOs. I think kids in 4th and 5th grade who are good drawers would like this book I recommend this book to people who love to draw.

This really helped my drawing talent. It taught me How to draw in a different way then i am used to. i rate this book five stars 'cause that is pretty much what it deserves.

Ric Estrada, who illustrated this book, has come up with some wonderfully imaginative characters that show the younger reader the basics of drawing a cartoon character. Mr. Estrada, a forty year veteran of comic books and animation, shows how the building blocks of solid design are formed from the simplest of shapes. Not only is this a great learning tool, but the names and commentary inside are quite entertaining as well. I highly recommend this book.

I bought this book for a younger friend who likes to drawstange creatures. I used to teach art to children and used a number ofthe Lee Ames books in my classes which were always a big hit. I noticed that not all children can follow the visual step-by-step instructions but those that did usually had a great time and good results. This books seems to be of the same quality as the other Lee Ames books I've purchased.

I had to make a report on black holes and time traveling. I read this book knowing nothing about scientific theories, trying to search for knowledge on the topic. It helped me a lot. It showed me how a time machine can be build. HOWEVER, it didn't based this theory on much. I was left dazed and confused. When I asked teachers to help me understand, they said it was just IMPOSSIBLE! Should this book be categorized as fiction? I hope not. My grade depends on it!

I've read alot of books about space, but this is the most detailed space book I've ever read. The part about time machines and black holes was confusing but very interesting. I had no idea it was possible to make a time machine, or is it? This book may not be right on everything but I trust it. I trust all the books I read (not including fiction books). The part about the box and the light going through was really interesting. I don't get everything in the book, but I still liked it.

I got this book from the kids' section at our public library to help with some research I was doing. I haven't been a kid in decades, but I still absolutely loved Time & Space. Today, after having renewed the library book three times, I decided to order it from Amazon. It's something I want in my permanent library. I do not have a scientific mind, but that's okay. This book is written for the non-Einsteins among us.

Eyewitness Time & Space tells about many time theorys as well as space theorys (actually, they are one, also known as "spacetime" as it metions in the book.) This book tells about the history of time and space and how people have dealed with it over the milleniums and centuries, bio-space and bio-time, and spacetime laws. It even talks about going "across the universes". This means there are parallel dimensions happening trillions at a time when someone makes a choice and goes up that "root" in time, also known as "quantam universes". Sound confusing enough? There's also a chapter at the end of the book that says how you can create a time machine, but it would be really difficult, becuase it says you need a black hole. This book is facinating, yet it may be confusing to some people.

Do it right when planning your child's space. This book has great tips on incorporating Feng Shui into your plans.

I would like to thank the author for her work. Great book with great advices, not some phishy stuff. If you have children, and would like to "do it right" from Feng Shui point of view, combine knowledge from this book with basis of Feng Shui, and you will be all set.

I read this book while pregnant with my daughter. It was (and still is) a great resource in planning her space. I have a home daycare, and use the book as a guide for play areas. It is well written, easy to understand AND apply. I feel the author's views and opinions are well educated and workable. I have recomended this book to anyone who is planning to redecorate their children's space.

A delicious look at the childs world from the view of feng shui. A practical tool for parents and anyone concerned with children, not only for creating spaces where children can thrive, but to understand them better.

A hard working pair of brothers pulled their resources together to invent the airplane. It's amazing story and it's amazing that they did it. The fact that people died during the process makes it more amazing. Now a days they would be hit with lawsuits a plenty and everything might have been shut down. I found this story one I would want to share with my students in 8th grade. They are studying inventions currently in class. This book is a wonderful resource for them.

This book is wonderful for children to read or have it read to them. It contains marvelous illustrations and actual photographs of important events in the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright.

This large and attractive book tells the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright, the two industries young Americans who were the first to fly a mechanically-powered aircraft. The book starts with the two Wrights as boys, and tells the story of their interest in flying, the theoretical and practical advances they made in making powered flight possible, what happened at Kittyhawk, and what came later.

Now, while this book is written with the young reader in mind, it is an excellent read for readers of any age. The book does an excellent job of explaining how the Wrights conquered the air, and uses many colorful pictures and graphs to bring the story to life. Overall, I found this to be a fascinating book and a wonderful resource. I highly recommend this book!

This book is a marvelous summary of the story of the Wright Brothers, and both children and their parents are likely to learn from it. My 6-year-old enjoyed it, in part because of the interesting mix of illustrations - there are nine handsome and painstakingly accurate full-page paintings, as well as a further mix of vintage and color photographs, diagrams and sketch plans - but this book seems intended for somewhat older children in the 8-12 age range. The book not only succeeds as biography and history, but it also tries to explain some of the mechanics and science of flying. Thus, there are insets on such topics as "How Does Wing-Warping Work?", "The Wright Wind Tunnel," and diagrams explaining concepts such as pitch, roll, and yaw. There are other insets focusing on aspects of late nineteenth-century social history ("The Bicycle Craze") and other aerial pioneers who paved the way for the Wright Brothers ("Otto Lilienthal: The Flying Man"). The book includes all of the key historical artifacts (the first picture of the first flight, Orville's elated but still understated telegram home to his father announcing "Success . . . inform Press . . . . home Christmas "). It goes beyond the first flight itself, detailing the world's surprisingly muted reaction to the Wrights' great achievement, the difficulties they had protecting their patent rights in subsequent years, and the 1908 air crash that resulted in the first fatality in an airplane and serious injuries to Orville Wright. It also tells the striking story of the brothers' father, Bishop Milton Wright, whose gift of a toy helicopter to his two young sons ultimately led to one of the most important scientific accomplishments of all time. One of the happiest aspects of the Wrights' story is that the old bishop lived to fly through the skies with his son Orville.

This book is thus a wonderful retelling for younger readers of the remarkably focused and disciplined five year-campaign in which two self-taught mechanic-scientists, neither of them a college graduate, with no corporate backing or financial resources aside from those supplied by their own successful small business, realized man's oldest dream and conquered the sky. Beyond that, it is a moving reminder for parents of the astonishing results that can sometimes grow from a gift to a child, and the willingness to foster and facilitate a child's curiosity about their world.

I was prejudiced against Bean's fifties incursion into space after the tedium of "Freddy and the Space Ship," but "Men from Mars" proved to be a surprisingly strong title. My six year old son laughed a lot and was thrilled when one of his favorite villains showed up. A good one!

Freddy the Pig and his friends from the Bean farm have come a long way from their first trip to Florida in 1928. Now they have a Farm Animals Republic, a bank, a newspaper, an atomic powered car and even a rocket ship. But, despite the prestige and renown of being Bean farm animals, their basic nature had remains the same - they are honest, forthright, and darned funny.

Things bode ill for the Boomschmidt Circus when Herbert Garble (who has never had an honest day in his life) joins them with six strange looking men from Mars - each a foot high, in red pajamas and wearing red fluffy whiskers. Freddy is sure there is some fraud involved, but the Circus is making a ton of money and the last thing the farm animals want to do is hurt Mr. Boomschmidt. Freddy, Jinx the Cat, Uncle Ben and Mrs. Peppercorn head out to investigate.

What they find is pretty fishy, or rather, pretty ratty. Mean old Simon the rat and his family are up to their necks in trouble making, and Garble's Martians are just the start. If the rats have their way the Beans will be forced off their farm and Uncle Ben will lose his rocket ship. Drastic times call for drastic measures as the animals prepare to go to war.

If things are strange with fake Martians, they get stranger when a flying saucer full of real Martians shows up to investigate. Soon there are rats pretending they are Martians, rabbits pretending they are rats pretending they are Martians, and real Martians stirring the pot. As Freddy nearly is sent to Montana to become pork chops and bacon, everything hangs in the balance.

As always Walter Brooks' tales combine humor and suspense with a natural sense of values that apply equally to animal and man. If the science in this book is a bit silly it is still engaging enough for its intended readership. And the simple lessons of friendship and doing what is right never grow old.

Walter R. Brooks Is witty and intellegent he makes wonderful books and this is wnderful and i think it should be rated ten stars!!!!!



It is so Cool.

I love this book and i think it is one of the best by Walter R. Brooks.
I love Walter Brooks and i love all of his books including Freddy the Pilot, Freddy The Cowboy, and Freddy and the Egnormous.
I highly recomend his books to people of all ages.