Children's Space Books Books

The book teaches you many things about stars. some things it teaches you is about Galaxes, Globuler clusters and clusters. THis book was very intresting and I recomend people that like stars to read this book.

I bought this for my seven year old. He is delighted with it, the book is clearly a hit. The text is perfect for him to practice his reading as he learns about the stars.

He is especially taken with stars he recognises, such as Betegeuse in Orion. And he was very impressed with the drawing of a planet being sucked into a black hole. That sparked a couple of days of discussion about what life would be like in black holes. Kids always love the gruesome stuff!

The photographs of nebulae are very beautiful. I have to admit though, I'll need an adult version to answer some of the questions I am being asked.

Steel; From the Iron Age to the Space Age by Douglas Alan Fisher is a history book that begins with the origin of iron. Fisher tells you all you need to know about the transformation from iron to steel and how we arrived where we are today. He goes into the necessary details but leaves out the dull metallurgy. Douglas Alan Fisher then explains the first method of creating mass amounts of steel and how Bessemer's process quickly evolved into our modern electric arc blast furnaces.

This book is not for people who are learning about in depth metallurgy or for people who couldn't care less why there office still stands tall. People who are interested in the basic history of steel and iron should look towards this book.

Too bad this one's out of print! Fisher discusses just about everything there is to know about steel. Not in super detail, of course--yet he manages to explain: the history of iron/steel making; how modern steel is made; how chemistry affects the physical properties of steel; how an American steel mill is set up.

Fisher's writing is easy and enjoyable. The subject may sound dull: ``Steel''. Yet Fisher makes it extremely interesting.

There's something in this book for everyone. Including fans of that famous union-busting library-building steel baron, Andy Carnegie. Pittsburghers should definitely read this. (BTW, if you're a Pittsburgher, the Penn Hills library has a copy.)

This book is a great start for the time twist series. Both girls and boys will enjoy the original story this book has to offer. It jumps back and forth between a girl traped in another world and her best friend who is trying to save her. Will he be able to figure it out before its to late... Read the book and find out.

This book is about what could happen if time could hiccup and throw you into a parallel dimention.

"THE BACK of the BOOK": Elizabeth, retreats in exasperation to the bathroom. Soaking in a warm tub will ease her tension.... not to mention provide an scape from her mother's questions. But the next thing Elizabeth can recall, she's in a strange unknown world -- like her own, but unlike. Everyone there calls her Sarah, and no one has ever heard of Elizabeth Forde. What's going on? Is she mentally unwell? as "Sarah's" friends presume? Is she suffering from amnesia? But if it's amnesia why does she have a whole lifetime of memories from a diffrent time and place? While Elizabeth/Sarah struggles to figure out who and where she is, Elizabeth's parents and best friend, Jeff, are frantic to find her. Jeff's unusual Uncle Malcom has an idea where she might be....some nutty theory about alternate realities. Could what seem like coincidences really be the secret workings of God? Maybe they should give Uncle Malcom's theory a try...

I thought this was a very nice book, with lots of facts, details and bright photos. I bought it for my 3 year old nephew, knowing he was not ready for all the factual aspects but would love the illustrations. He opened it on Christmas morning, and according to his mother, did not open another present but spent the rest of the morning pouring over this book. He loves books and is especially into rockets. I recommend this book for anyone who likes rockets and wants to read more about them.

I now have the entire series of Paul Collicut books, this was a pleasant surprise, the 6th book in the series which proves to be very entertaining and very muuch enjoyed by my [...] He can read the whole book alone! Big beautiful graphic pictures enhance the enjoymnet of reading this book! Enjoy!!

This large, though thin book contains a history of the space probes Voyagers 1 and 2. The book goes through their creation, and the many discoveries that were made. The pictures are breath taking, and the text is easy to read.

In general, this book will be for those who are interested in those probes as a part of space-history. My Nine-eight-year-old daughter read the book through (to the best of her ability), and enjoyed it immensely.

Large print, full page color pictures, this book is for younger children with a beginning interest in astronomy, particularly the voyagers. But, if you have a large knowlege of astronomy, particularly the outer planets, you don't need this book to suppliment your collection.

This was an interesting book. I probably would not have read this book if my great-grandfather wasn't a member of von Braun's rocket team that came over from Germany. I learned a lot about World WarII from this book. I even learned a little about rocket propulsion(how a rocket goes).

This is a very good book that covers the life of Dr. Wernher von Braun without getting too deep in details. The book is a quick read at about 130 pages but you still get a good overall view of von Braun's life. The best part of the book is where the authors cover the years before von Braun became involved with NASA. They do not shy away from his involvement with the German SS and the problems he faced from his past after he moved to the United States, yet they do not paint him as a war criminal as some have attempted to do. This book sites sources and contains a glossary and is well indexed. There are a few technical and editing mistakes (the Apollo-Soyuz mission did not take place in 1957 as stated on page 117, nor were Saturn rockets used for any Gemini missions as stated on page 104), but these problems do not override the main thrust of the book. If you have heard of Dr. von Braun and have wanted to know more, this is a great introduction to the man and his interesting life.

This book is cool! You should try the red, yellow, and blue levels. But don't play the Abdomable Snow Woman, It's hard to win. P.S. I don't like V.R. any more. There's one thing for sure, you sure won't like it anymore!

(Just to start this don't think the Vegans are people from Vegas)You start out in a virtual reality store or is it?(there's two options you can pick from:Off Vega or The Abominable Snow Women)if you pick Off Vegas your in for a bumpy ride dont do anything stupid like try and escape they may be strong but they're chickens use the cartons to get past them dont hurt them either all they want is help.The Vegans need your help to beat their enemy.(The Arcturians) the Arcturians made a game if you lose you die that simple...but dont go looking for it the Vegans will take u right to it and (when you meet the lizard in one level(the red level) dont chop it up use the blaster) after you beat the Arcturians they're will be a little suprise waiting for you at the "Virtual Reality"palce all i can say is its a mess...Now about the Abominable Snow Women(you'll never guess who she is in reality)you meet a new friend in the Abominable Snow Womenhis name is Andy all you have to do in this level is kill her that seems simple enough dosent it? people who pick Off Vegas Good luck with the aliens people who pick Abominable Snow Women...you need all the help in the world I dont know which one is better to go with so its your choice READERS BEWARE YOU CHOOSE THE SCARE!!!...your you die before you get to choose(im just joking people)

Wells' tale of the future of mankind is both highly entertaining, and a valid critique of the rigid social class system associated with capitalism. Wells was so far ahead of his time, that this tale is actually not the least bit dated. Despite being written over a century ago, Wells' scientific theories are still as believable and sound as they were in 1895. If you have even the slightest interest in Science Fiction pick this one up, its a concise, highly captivating read

We've all seen at least one of the movie versions of H.G. Well's The Time Machine, but none of them frankly compares with the original Sci-Fi classic. The book tells the story of the Time Traveler's journey nearly a million years into the future and the very unexpected and disturbing society he finds there. The Time Traveler formulates various theories based on what he observes of the society which each, in turn, prove to be oh so wrong! [Warning: mild spoiler] In the end, his realization of the future is especially terrifying considering it is the result of our current social structure (or H.G. Well's, anyway).

I especially recommend this book for those of us with short attention spans - it's only 140 pages (and that's the large print version). But don't get the wrong idea, this book still has more depth and creativity than most 500 page books i've read and is a great read, even compared with today's science fiction standards.

This book has to be considered a classic considering it spawned a whole genre of time traveling books, movies, and tv shows which imitated it. It is also the best Wells book I have read, hand's down (though I never read "the invisible man"). Get a hold of a copy and read it today!!

I am sure that you have seen the movies that have been made from this book, there are quite a few and most of them are very entertaining. Unfortunately none of the movies that I have seen have captured the social meaning behind this book. Certainly they have the adventure part down pat, but the rest of it is changed, for the times I'm sure. I would advise those of you who love Sci-fi to read this book, and to those of you, like myself who have a hard time getting into that genera, look at this as a classic and read it anyway.

The unnamed inventor of a time machine, known only as the traveler, leaves his home to travel forward through time. Seeing drastic changes in the world he finally settles on a distant future to get out and explore. He quickly meets tiny humans which he refers to as the Eloi. They are fair to look at, complete ADD cases with little to no true knowledge or skills. The Traveler attempts to communicate with them and has some difficulty. He spends a great deal of time in this futuristic world and discovers that the Eloi are not alone in this new world, and that their counterparts are far more sinister.

One of the biggest changes made in the movies is the cause of the split between the Eloi and the Morlocks. It is very interesting to read Well's actual reasoning, which is the separation and elitism between the social classes. This becomes more defined and is the actual basis of the entire novel. Rather than being a true Sci-Fi book, this really is about Victorian Society and what it would look like if left unchanged for 800,000 years. Because this book only vaguely touches on the science involved, it is likely to never be outdated. Though this is not a fast read by any means, it is a fun and meaningful one. I don't know that I would hand it to a 10 year old because odds are they would be bored before he even leaves for the trip. However if you can take a deep breath and leave our societies mindset behind (the theory that everything needs to be exploding and that we all need instantaneous gratification at all times) this is a brilliant piece of fiction that spans several genres and is in fact as timeless as the Traveler.

H G Wells has awakened the world with his art of tale through the travel of time. He is the inspiration of every time travel writer in existence today, with no exception, myself included. Along with great classics like Twenty-thousand Leagues Under the Sea, I remember the first time reading these classics. I was in awe. Though time travel, a genre given life by H G Wells is the ultimate epic sci-fi adventure. The very idea of time travel has opened the eyes of every imagination in my soul. The ramifications are endless. H G Well's Time Machine is my favorite, all time story. Even when you think of how the future looked as grim as it did thousands of years from the story line's origination, one only needs to remember that this tale is merely one possiblity of billions that could be changed with a simple act of maybe a push of a button or even less. I believe THAT was the message Wells was revealing to us all. This is a very well written story that I highly recommend to anyone of any age or time. This very book was my biggest inspiration since I was first able to read.

I enjoyed this book. It's about a man that we only know as the "Time Traveler" who obviously invents a time machine and he goes into the future and ends up meeting up with the friendly Eloi, and befriends Weena, an Eloi. While he is with the Eloi his time machine goes missing. He finds the Morlocks, which Wells describes as ghostly apes. They are the reason that everything works so well for the Eloi, but they only prove as food for the Eloi.

In the end he gets his time machine back and hurries back to his own time to tell all of the other scientists about his journey. This is how this book is written, in first person, the point of view of the time traveler.

If you liked War of the Worlds than this is a must read.

Wells, H.G. Time Machine, The
December 1992, Tom Doherty Associates,LLC.

A very nice book to read. As for the facts, it is up to each and everyone to decide. I don't think we are alone, and this book if true just shows us one small encounter of humanity with the rest of life in the Universe.

I have only just begun this book and already have read about coverups and unscrupulous activities within the government. Even if we have had "visitations" from other worlds, what would be the harm in letting the public know? I hope the rest of the book provides some answers.

This book is about a VERY COMPLICATED matter, and to think that a military intelligence man would "let us in on the truth" is completely ridiculous. Corso was part of the insiders and power brokers of this World, and we obviously are not, so this book is largely about misdirection, cover-up, and encoded information, and not to be taken at face value.

I first read this book a number of years ago and thought otherwise, naturally, but after becoming much more wise, I have come full circle on this matter. In short, if one wanted to get much closer to the truth, then while reading this book you should substitute the words "German Nazi" everytime Corso uses the word "alien". And just maybe that is what he wanted certain people to do. The strange info and diagrams at the back of the book regarding "Moon Bases", might also relate VERY WELL to the Germans. I don't doubt that other intelligent races exist in this Universe and maybe Corso really did see an "EBE" at an Air Force base, but those saucers that "crashed" in New Mexico (and other parts of the World a few years prior) were most likely of terrestrial origin, and most likely German. Of course Von Braun, Oberth, Oppenheimmer and other "Paperclip" Nazis who infiltrated the USA post WW2 would've known for sure...

The facts remain that the German's of the 1930s and '40s had all the tech that Corso claims is "alien" (and technically it was depending on your defintion of "alien", if you get my point...), and that is one of the BEST KEPT SECRETS from the WW2 era. The real question, of course, is "If the core of the German 3rd Reich survived with their high tech, where are they now and what are they up to??!!" This answer would go a looooonnng way in explaining the modern "UFO Saga". Trust me.

I read The Day after Roswell ten years ago. The book is not easy to forget. Two years after second world war came Roswell saucer, transistor, Dead Sea Schrolls, and independence to India. United Nations Human Rights Declaration came in 1948. Philip Corso had a lot to tell about the Roswell incident. This book is ok, interesting and entertaining. Better and better!

Consider this book the ultimate reference on alien technology, advancement of American spatial discoveries, extraterrestrial reverse engineering and the psyche of American coverups and conspiracies. Fascinating book fueld by first hand data, reliable sources, military archives and those who are on the inside. Dynamite!

I have just "reread" H. G. Wells classic of science fiction (actually I listened to the audiobook version on my iPod on a long flight). And it is still as gripping to me as it was many years ago when I was a young teen. As the grandfather of all science fiction concerning invasions of alien beings from advanced interplanetary civilizations "The War of the Worlds" always will be considered a seminal work of science fiction.

The book is a first person account, by a survivor, of a Martian attack on the south of England during the late 19th century. Human armies and weapons are totally inadequate to stop the invading alien army. The Martian technology that Wells describes would have been frightening to anyone living in the late 19th century. Rapidly moving fighting machines, heat rays, and poison gas attacks all at the command of a totally inhuman and merciless enemy whose attack was entirely unprovoked. However, we had only had to wait for 2 decades to experience tanks and poison gas on the battlefields of Europe. A few decades more and we had atomic bombs and lasers. Neither did Wells depict the Martians as invulnerable. After all, the torpedo ram "Thunderchild" took out two and possibly 3 of the Martian war machines before it was sunk. Of course today a squadron of modern F16s could wipe out the entire invading Martian army of 1898 in a few minutes. Followed by a thermonuclear attack on Mars iteslf, of course. We clearly have outstripped the technology that Wells imagined.

However, futuristic technology is not the point of Wells' book. Wells knew that human machines were advancing at a rapid pace. He probably would not be surprised at today's technology. Wells book actually is a social commentary and a condemnation of the British colonial system and the cruel indifference with which Europe exploited less technologically advanced peoples. The Martians that he describes could well become us. Sluggish beings, entirely dependant on machines, living on the life blood of the less fortunate. This is in fact what half of humanity does become in Wells' equally important novel "The Time Machine." So the theme of "The War of the Worlds" is as important today as it was in 1898 in spite of the admittedly dated technology that it describes.

I bought this for my 10 year old son who saw the movie (Tom Cruise). He loved the book and because it's in paperback we took it everywhere.

BAM went the heat ray as it was fired by the aliens. If you want to hear what happens next then go read War of the Worlds.
War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells, was written 110 years ago in 1898. It takes place in a small town in England. One day a mysterious black cylinder falls out of the sky. A couple days later the cylinder opens up and a cylinder is fired. Many people are killed but the main character just manages to escape. The aliens build up a ship thing and call for other cylinders to come. The aliens try to take over the town, then the world!
I did not have a favorite part in War of the Worlds. I thought War of the Worlds was actually a pretty boring book because there was barely any good and exciting action at all. There was a lot of shooting, but all they shot at were the alien's ship things and the bullets just bounced off.
H. G. Wells described almost everything way too much. For example: he uses 3 pages describing a dead horse and 2 pages describing fire.
I thought the whole plot of War of the Worlds was good except for the beginning. For no reason at all a cylinder from Mars with Martians in it falls out of the sky.
I do not recommend this book for people who like action. If you want a lot of action, I recommend the movie War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise.

I love this book. It truly kept me on the edge of my seat as I followed characters and their exodus from Martian tyranny.

I have been planning on reading this book for over 10 years. I remember watching the movie when I was little (and then the remake a few years ago). First of all, this was far better than either of the movies.

Written in first person from the account of a survivor of the attack (who is never named) and then recounting the tale of his brother, this is a very immediate and unsettling tale. What I did not expect was the time frame the book was written in. I assumed (for some idiotic reason) that it would take place in the twentieth century. Instead, for those of you who like myself, forgot the timeframe that Wells lived in, this book takes place in the nineteenth century. The Martian attack occurs prior to the weapons of warfare that we are so used to thinking about; there are no tanks, no planes with bombs. Hussars and artillery are their greatest defense. People couldn't hop in their cars and drive from the invaders; they were instead in horse drawn carriages, communicating the disaster via telegraph and daily papers. This put a whole new twist on the tale from what I was expecting.

Our narrator lives only a few miles from where the first "ship" lands and we follow the town's initial curiosity and complete lack of fear as they peek into the hole in the ground created by the wreak. Even after the first "heat rays" are fired and people are killed, there is still no sense of fear. When the action comes, it comes quickly. Separated from his wife and family our unnamed narrator survives mainly through luck and the fact that he never stops moving. The entire story takes place in less than a month, from initial landing to total devastation. There is a lot of science involved, discussing the physiology of the aliens, speculation on their planet, and how they evolved. For the casual reader it's not too bad and doesn't bog down the story. For the rabid science hound, please remember when this book was written before you blast the scientific inconstancies and flat out scientific errors.

I highly recommend reading this book, to just about anyone. It is a fast read, which manages to keep your attention from beginning to end. The political and social commentary though written for another time still holds value today. The religious implication is not jammed down your throat. This is a fun yet chilling read, which you will find yourself pondering over long after you have put the book away.