Children's Space Books Books

I enjoyed reading Time Cat. In Time Cat every chapter is like a mini-book. Personally, I enjoyed the end of a book because, it was a climax. At the climax Jason and Gareth were in American colonial times and I wasn't sure what was going on. Then, all of a sudden, they started climbing a sloping hill and were one their way home. The book is also one of my favorite genres, Historical Fiction. Overall, I would give this book ****.

Time Cat is a wonderful fictional book about a boy named, Jason, that owns a time traveling cat, Gareth. Early in the story, Jason finds out Gareth can talk and travel to nine different lives anywhere, any time, to any country, and in any century.
When Gareth agrees to take Jason they go to Egypt first followed by Rome, Britain, and Ireland. I enjoyed Egypt because of the atmosphere and general story. I didn't like Rome, Britain, or Ireland. The adventure to Rome and Britain were in the same visit and it confused me. It jumped from Rome to Britain in the change of chapters and it didn't make any sense or have any connection. I didn't care for Ireland either because of the story. The characters were boring and the story showed no meaning to me at all.
The next journey continued to Japan, which I like a lot. The adventure Jason and Gareth have and the setting are very interesting. Italy and Peru come after Japan and both were exciting. I loved Italy it was my favorite place because of the main character and the story. After reading Italy, Peru seemed kind of plain but I liked it too. Jason and Gareth get into a sticky situation and a friend comes to their rescue.
Jason and Gareth now go to the Isle of Man, accompanied by Germany and America. In the Isle of Man, Jason and Gareth meet some interesting characters which made the adventure more fun and enjoyable. I also liked Germany because of the story and adventure Jason and Gareth experience. America was alright, but it wasn't my favorite place. The story didn't interest me and I was confused in the beginning.
I thought Time Cat was an overall good book. The characters were fun to learn about and the adventures in each country were interesting. I recommend this book to people that love adventure, are interested in cats, and like books with time travel.

The type of reader that should read this book is a reader who likes to go on adventures. The protagonists are Gareth and Jason. The antagonist is Gareth. My thoughts about Jason is the I like how he's always into adventures and knows how to solve any problems. I also like the way he can fit into his surroundings, meaning that he can dress up like the people that are in the country he's in. My thoughts about Gareth as the protagonist is that I like how he has the power to travel around the world. If it wasn't for him, Jason wouldn't be able to go home. Another thig I like about Gareth is that he can talk. My thoughts about Gareth as the antagonist is that he gets Jason into a lot of trouble. Like when Jason almost got his head chopped off. My thoughts about the book is that I liked how the author described each person Jason and Gaeth met. I haven't read anything else by this author, but I think I will.

I liked Time Cat very much! It is full of action. A cat named Gareth takes his master named Jason on a journey. They travel through time going to different times like: Egypt, Rome and Briton, Ireland, Japan, Italy, Peru, Germany, and America. Every chapter {which I just named }has someone that was famous like Neter-Khet, Petronius, Saint Patrick and Cerdic Longtooth. I can't name all of them but that is some.
I think is a great book! It would be very cool if people could go back in time. If I could time travel I would go back to the Roman Empire.
by Jacob from Stockbridge Central School

I am in second grade. This book had very good details and the exploring was really interesting. I love this book because I love cats too. I'm going to read more books by Mr. Alexander. I hope that all of you will read this book... Time Cat.

OK,here's the deal;after the events in book 5 Yago finds himself hooked up to Mother,the supercomputer that runs the ship the Remnants have tried to inhabit.Mother reads Yago's memories and creates a computer-generated Washington D.C.Yago then finds himself leading a battalion of computer-generated soldiers against a battalion of Blue Meanies.My favorite scene is where a Blue Meanie "kills" Yago.Fortunately it turns out to be a projection of Yago,made to simulate his death.Altogether Yago played a big part in this chapter of the Remnants' saga.

i think that this book really picks up the pace in the series. sometimes though, i felt that the author tried to rush things and didn't explain them well. overall though, this book really explain's yago and is one of the better remnant's books. i though think that the first is the best.

The Remnants are a group of survivors that escaped from the asteroid that wiped out earth and have been floating in space for 500 years in hibernation. Then they landed on a ship and are now trapped on that ship controlled by a super computer called Mother. They are now going to challenge Mother. The other people that have tried to fight and take over have failed and have now gone crazy. There only hope now is a boy named Billy that has some how been able to create a bond with mother. They also learn through him that Mother is lonely and about the Shipwrights. They have also learned that Mother can create new environments and even new worlds. She can even create a computer-generated earth. But will they survive long enough for Billy to take over?
I thought that this is a great book. This is one of the best-written books that I have ever read. I would suggest reading the others and this one if you�re a Sci-fi fan.

I, personally, thought the 1st book in this series was good, but it seemed that after that, Applegate didn't know where to go with it, but had to write something, and this is the result. I have only read books 1-6, but this is my opinion. I'll stick with this series and see if a general plot ever developes. Right now, I don't reccomend these books.

The Remnants continue their struggle with a world created by Mother, the powerful computer who seems to have human qualities. The few people who have faced Mother have failed miserably, but the Remnants have one hope, Billy, the kid who stayed awake all 500 years of their journey. He is the only one who has been able to creat a bond with her. From Mother, through Billy, the Remnants learn much about the lonely negelected computer, including the fact that she was made by the powerful Shipwrights. Soon the Remnants figure out that Mother has the ability to recreate Earth too but the Remnants know she will ask something in return. Yago, against many people's wishes, makes a deal with Mother to let her delve into his mind and recreate Earth. In return Yago agrees to destroy the Children for Mother, otherwise know as the "Blue Meanies" A computer generated battle takes place as the projections of Civil War Soliders take on the Blue Meanies. Will the Remnants survive the battle they can't even control?

This wasn't one of the best Remnants books and thing definitely got weirder. Some things I felt were a little out of control weird. This book did have some pretty impressive revelations as we get to know the baby's true identity. We also meet 2 new Remnants who have been separated from the rest of the Remnants and held captive by the Children.

I first read this book when I was about 12 or 13 years old. I found it to be a beautiful and mysterious book with just enough strangeness to make me want to read it again and again. Well when I got older I found a used copy and decided I didn't want to be without it because it impacted me like few books had, and as a kid I read alot! It will give you an imagination if you don't have one, and if you do have one, it'll fire it up all the more. I love it. I still pull it out and read it on occassion, usually in one sitting. The 'person' who gave it a one star rating is probably used to Ren & Stimpy...

I read this book over and over again starting at age 10 when I first discovered it. There was something magical and intriguing about the story of a girl who comes across a ghost in a museum, and then learns about her past (so different from today) over the course of several meetings. There is a mysterious quality to the book, and always the feeling that something this magical might happen to any child at the right time in the right place. This is one of the stories I most strongly remember falling in love with as a child-- some 30 years later, it still sticks with me.

This book is one I return to every year or two, and I'm always enchanted by Eleanor Cameron's artistic, finely-tuned prose. The story is well thought out and told with sensitivity and depth. It is definitely one of the most treasured books in my collection.

WARNING: This book looks good. It has an interesting plot. Do not be fooled by its 4.5 star rating on Amazon.com. Side effects may include nausea, boredom, and downright depression for wasting time.

This book is very slow, boring and has terrible writing! I mean, there's this one part that is something like: "The deserted place was empty." COME ON!!!
Do not read this book!

My son brought this book home from the school library and while he enjoyed it, I was completely hooked. As I kid I loved books that gave me places to wander around and get lost in--The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler comes to mind. This museum is much smaller, but gives readers a glimpse into what running a museum is like, and the magical atmosphere that can be created amid all the bits and pieces of the past. In this case, the "magic" is more than atmospheric, and the characters are an eclectic mix. After the book went back to the library, I ordered a copy for myself.

The story of two soulmates who first meet in prehistory (caveman times) and die fighting over a mysterious rock. The two continue to be reincarnated throughout history. In each life, they meet, feel a sudden and unexplainable connection, and then lose each other. It's like they keep getting "do-overs" until they get things right.

Fans of historical fiction will enjoy the brief glimpses into a variety of time periods--prehistory, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, colonial America during the Salem witch trials, France during WWII/Holocaust, Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and modern day New York.

The story kept my interest for the most part, but I was disappointed with the ending. The resolution seemed to come too quickly and easily.

I am interested in the subject of reincarnation, but at first I wasn't sure I would like a book geared toward younger readers about some people's love life that spans through multiple liftimes. I was pleasantly surprised.

Despite what it says on the cover, "Reincarnation" isn't just a romance. It really covers the scope of issues related to the philosophy of reincarnation by following the lives of two people from pre-history to today. It addresses issues such as different cultural and religious beliefs in different lives, how expectations about life after death affect the actual experience, time between physical lives, fears and phobias that carry over, birth marks and physical attributes, talents and interests, and common relationships. In one lifetime the characters' genders were reversed, and they were often different races from one life to another. Past life memories arose from dreams, spontaneous recall, and eventually hypnotic regression.

The book was a little heavy-handed on the connections between lives, to a point where the current life was too overshadowed by past issues. But considering the topic, I'm not sure what other emphasis I would have expected. I also felt the ending physical validations for the characters' past lives were a little too convenient. Still, I've never read a work of fiction this detailed in the level of research the author put in to make it a believable account of the lifespan of a group of souls traveling through many lifetimes and growing together spiritually.

From the moment they first meet, this young man and woman have a powerful connection. But circumstance will not allow them to stay together; a fight for a green jewel ends both of their lives. However, their bond is so strong that it surpasses the boundary between life and death and they continue to be born into new bodies until they can finally be together.

Reincarnation is quite a unique story, and I have never quite read anything like it. Each story of these two lovers connects back to the previous ones in obvious ways, so it is easy to tell which character was reincarnated into which new character, although this was a little confusing when the girl became a guy. The easiest way for me to recognize who was who was with the details that carried over from setting to setting. For example, the main young woman always had a pet cat named Baby, a hurt ankle, and a great singing voice, and the main young man always had headaches and a skill in archery. I really enjoyed how all the characters were interconnected and also the various historical settings. A lot of research must have gone into this novel, and I am nearly positive that it is all accurate.

The idea behind Reincarnation is a philosophical question, and Suzanne Weyn attacks it head on. I really liked how she incorporated many major religions, according to their region, and their views on death and the afterlife. However, I found it kind of ironic how the two lovers were never reincarnated as people in India, which is where the two main religions believing in reincarnation, Buddhism and Hinduism, originated. But this can be forgiven since the characters read many books on Buddhism in the novel.

The ending of the story was bittersweet for me, because I did not feel that the story lived up to its full potential. Suzanne Weyn leaves a lot of the story up to interpretation, which is good for making the reader think about the concept of reincarnation, but it did not leave me with a sense that the young lovers would stay together in love for all of eternity. The one redeeming point was how the other two characters that are also reincarnated get together.

All in all, I was a little disappointed with Reincarnation, but it was a beautiful story nonetheless. I do recommend it, because it is a highly unique and thought-provoking read, and I hope that other readers will find it as sweet a love story as I did.

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Are people really destined for each other? Does love conquer all things? This book is all about love and its endless possibilities. It all starts in prehistory. Kye is a hunter who stumbles away from home during a battle and ends up near a cave in which May lives. From the result of the battle, Kye needs to find something that he can take back which will help him receive the status of leader in his group. When he came near the cave, he saw May standing near the ledge of the cliff they were on. She then started to sing and once she did, Kye was captivated by her voice. He was near mesmerized when a sudden gust of wind came. It blew leaves away from the base of the cliff unveiling a sparkling green stone. This fascinated Kye nearly more than May's voice and he knew that this is what he needed to take back in order to be named leader. He needed to get the stone elusively without May seeing him. As he came closer to it, he thought that he was in the clear. Closer and closer he got until something suddenly collided with his shoulder at such an impact that it made him unbalanced. It was May. She threw herself at him in order to protect the stone. Both would stop at nothing to get it. They became so aggressive with each other that they dropped over the edge of the cliff. Both Kye and May crashed down at the bottom of the cliff. Their corpses are there but May still thinks she is alive. Why? Because she is above the water and floating in the air. She doesn't realize she is dead until she sees her body. Then she is being born again.....into Tetisheri. Time goes from prehistory, to Egypt in 1280 B.C.E., to Athens in 399 B.C.E., to Salem, Massachusetts in 1691, the Battle of Honey Springs on July 17, 1863, to Paris in 1937, to Mississippi in 1964 and ending in New York during present times. The lives they play happen in about the same way. They each live a life their own until one day they meet and find the connection with each other. For some reason there is always something that keeps them apart though. Will they ever figure out what it is? Will they end up with their "soul mate"?

I think this novel by Suzanne Weyn is great because of her style of writing. I like the way she changes her settings toward the middle and plays off of history. In the beginning I thought the pacing was monotonous and uncaptivating which made me put the book down and not read it for a while. But when I tried it a second time, I pushed myself to read it and after a couple chapters the pacing really picked up. Even though this book seems to be written from a Buddhist point of view I really liked it and would recommend it to everyone who likes an excellent love story because I am very pleased that I read it.

While this is not at the level of such Munsch classics as "The Paper Bag Princess" and "Love You Forever", it is certainly a worthy source of delightfully quirky entertainment. The plot was so inplausible, and yet taken with such nonchalance that I couldn't help but be delighted. Great little book to put you in a good mood.

I believe that most of the criticisms of this book are accurate. I am rating it reasonably well because I came away with some insights that I thought were worthy of investing time in the book and in the book's author, James P. Hogan. It is true that the human characters are somewhat flat, including Taya the central character, while the machine characters are much better drawn. I suspect this was a conscious decision by Hogan because this book is really about the machines more so than the humans. Still, this does not absolve Hogan of a plot that seems incomplete; of a fantastic story that just begs to be fleshed out in much greater detail. However, "Star Child" was developed from a short story published more than a quarter century ago, and that original story, "Silver Shoes for a Princess" (also the first chapter in this book), stands alone as well-written and thought provoking. I found (after some frustration with the pace and exposition of the book) that I began to enjoy the book more if I considered it to be a collection of short stories rather than a fully developed novel. And the ending scenes, although brief, were quite poignant.

I thought that Hogan's exploration of mind was fascinating, with artificial intelligences probing the meaning of their existence. Artificial intelligence is usually portrayed as an omnipotent and often-threatening force prone to total logic, overseeing humanity (or competing with it) like a digital god, evolving through a process of digital compilation and development that spontaneously springs into self awareness with full knowledge of its pre-awareness history. But Hogan's machine minds have no idea where they came from and find themselves asking the very same questions human minds ask: Where did I come from? Why am I here? What happens when I die? The circular existence of the human minds and machine minds in Hogan's plot demonstrates that mind transcends the matrix that houses it, rendering artificial intelligence not as a vaguely disturbing threat in a possible future, but rather, perhaps having more in common with the human mind than is generally considered.

I like James Hogan's work, but I don't think this book is one of his better efforts.

The story has a good initial premise, providing the baseline of intelligent machines on a starship creating Taya from old (DNA) codes. Taya is a nine year old girl at the beginning of the story. I think it left out some obligatory developmental filler between the first section of the story when Taya is in self-discovery, and the next sub-story of planetfall with her younger cohorts. The way the mean and nasty king would revert to sugar and spice was too much of a reach for me.

Another large gap in development to the next section which tied up the loose ends of the starship origins and meaning of life (for Taya). Throwing in a little mystical mumbo jumbo at the end along with a post-life meta-space just didn't flow well for me.

This book is a very imaginative piece of work. It gives a detailed account of how computers can function. This very well may be the way of the future. The computers evolved on their own, as have other robot models today, but they begun evolution from human set parameters. This is a very realistic way of this process happening. So, not only is the book creative with a great story line, it is a distinct possibility.

One of the best books ever written!

When Taya was eight, she discovered that she wasn't like the machines around her. Her robot friend, Kort, no matter how kind, couldn't tell the difference between a pretty shape and a not pretty shape. Kort then showed her the bio-bodies that had been engineered after her. When they are brought to life, they call her "queen".

Ten years later, the robots and their charges land on Azure, a planet similar to our earth. Here, they meet with violence and destruction, foreign behaviors to them. For the most part, the story is about the "Star Children" and their influence on the planet.

During the first third of this book I was afraid it was going to end with ".. and they called their new planet EARTH!" Fortunately Hogan is much better than that.

I found problems with the necessary suspension of disbelief in a couple of areas which seemed to be unnecessary to the story. It it an intriging idea to have a self-aware machine build a self-aware bio-form (the star-child) out of component molecules based on nothing more than an imperfectly understood DNA record. The part that doesn't sit so well is the resulting person -- with utterly no connection to any human society -- could nonetheless end up with so much culturally in common with people living on a planet.

Hogan also skates over the massive problems that would accrue if you had a person raised in a sterile environment (no bacteria or viruses at all) and plonk them down into a fully functioning Earthlike ecology, even eating the local food. I'm no expert but I think it would be unlikely that such subjects would survive. At least not easily.

And if you would be interested in the star-child's first experiences with sex, you will be disappointed.

The part of the story about the machines were more believable, actually. I like the part where they developed multiple personalities to serve different functions: the Scientist, the Skeptic, the Mystic and so on.

Worth reading, but as I said it has shortcomings.

Like many people here, I got this book from a book sale in 6th grade. I find interesting that while most Sleator books feature main characters age 16 or older, the books themselves seem to be aimed at younger readers. Anyway, I loved this book then, and I love it now that I have just re-read it 15 years later. The ending was exciting, it resolved every conflict, and it came as a surprise. All the classical elements of a good fiction story.

However, I have to agree with the person who mentioned the plot problems. They're definitely there, and I don't mean just scientific inaccuracies ... you can get away with that in science fiction, of course ... nor do I mean stupid mistakes made by the main character, although he certainly does make a lot of them ... I mean that elements of the science on which the plot is built are suddenly changed later on in the book, probably because a self-consistent system of time travel would lead to a lame and predictable ending, which of course is not what the author wants.

So I'm going to go ahead and give this book only three stars, which is very low by my standards since I only tend to review books that I consider well worth of my money.

"Strange Attractors" was the best book I have ever read. It is set for a younger group of readers, but adults will enjoy this book as well. I highly reccomend this book to anyone who simply enjoys reading. The first time I read it was in seventh grade. I have read it at least five complete times by now. This is a great book to do a school project on. The only main conflict is locating the book at a bookstore near you.

-Happy Reading

OK so let me summarize. It's about a boy. These two people "plant" something on him. In a nutshell (I guess) there are another two people like the first, they are bad. The boy has to decide which two to trust.... he chooses. I can't tell much or it gives it away, the way I summarize it anyway. Well I think it isn't easy to get interested in, it's kinda boring actually...

Recommendation - I would recommend this book to someone who likes science fiction. One reason I would recommend this book is that it was exciting and the characters were good. " 'We must never use the phaser again', 'Sure, sure,' I said, 'there is no pointing arguing with you about it' ". This book was good because Max finds a time traveler. "This thing is a time machine". I would really recommend this book to anyone who would like a book on time travel.

I am normally a big fan of Willaim Sleator, but this book is poorly written, with a lot of errors in the plot.

Getting to the moon required a lot of knowledge. The astronauts, especially Neil Armstrong, often distance themselves from the heroism of the Apollo 11 project.

Apollo took hundreds of thousands of people and lots of teamwork to develop. It is therefore a treat to see Thimmesh's vivdly illustrated and inspiring book.

-Tahir Rahman, author of We Came in Peace for all Mankind: the untold story of the Apollo 11 silicon disc

I will use this book in my middle school curriculum when I teach about space. When I showed it to students, they pretty much just looked at the pictures. After they watched "Apollo 13" it made a lot more sense to them. Then they wanted to understand more about the technology available at the time. This book makes a great companion piece to "The Right Stuff" and "The Dish" as well. If you are trying to get a historical perspective on that time period and didn't live through it as some of us did, please do yourself a favor and read it. The current textbooks cannot portray the taste of adventure we felt each time the astronauts voyaged out into dangerous places,as students back home gathered around black and white TV's brought into the classrooms to watch splashdowns. Knowing that the support structures have to be so huge may help people both understand why it costs so much to run a space program as well as perhaps pursue careers in the aerospace industry that are not just in the small astronaut corps.

Definitely a juvenile-oriented work, but nonetheless very interesting and full of information not generally provided in accounts of the first manned moon landing.

i thought this book was great. i added it to my classroom library and the students love it too.

Though I typically lean towards fantasy and adventure-themed novels, this was one of the few science fiction books I was able to appreciate, not only for its interesting word choice, but also for its unexpected suspense. The author of this book really paints an image in your mind. The beginning, for me, was something I had to somewhat struggle through, but once I got past it, I was able to dive into the past, understanding the fears of the unknown that the people of that time must have faced. What was it like to go to the moon, to step onto that land that no man can describe? And 400,000...that's no small number, just as it was no small feat to land Apollo 11 on the moon.

~From the reader

This magicul book clung to me at my house I could not let go of it. When I wrote about it in school I thought about the magiul trips they took.

That magicul book seld my fingers on the cover! When I opened the adventures book I felt excited. In scool when I had to write about the book I rememberd the magicul trips they took.

I do not recommend this book!!! I took so long to finish it. Do not read it. You will fall asleep in minutes!!!!!!!

I bought this book after see the movie as a child still great loved every minute of it.

Bed - Knob and broomstick
By: Norton, Mary
Reviewed By: S. Chang
Period: P.5

Three children, Carey, Charles, and Paul are brothers and sisters that were sent to Bedfordshire to stay with their aunt. Very near their aunt's house, an old lady named Miss Price lives in a small house. On an early morning, the three children find Miss Price in pain with a broomstick next to her. Soon they find out that she is a witch and fell while practicing to ride on a broomstick. To prevent the children from revealing her secret, she put a spell on Paul's bed-knob. The spell was to take the children whenever they want if they twist the knob and wish. They take it home and twist the bed-knob and wish. But they don't end up getting quite what they want, only trouble, especially when they meet Emelius Jones.
This book, Bed ?Knob and Broomstick is included in one of my favorite books. I liked it because of many reasons, but most of all it's because it was unpredictable and adventurous. In most books, everything goes well most of the time and all the books seem to have almost the same story. But in this book, opposite from many other books that I have mentioned, almost everything goes wrong and is unpredictable. For example, who knew Paul was going to say, "It's hers. It's what she fell off. It's what she rides on.?Who knew they were going to meet Emelius Jones and get into all that adventure?
I say that this book is full of adventure. Especially when a dummy soars though the sky and save Emelius. I remember how they described that situation. In this book, some boys screamed, "A witch on a broomstick!?in the past of Bedfordshire. I always like it when they make the bed go somewhere. I also liked it when they went to the island of Ueepe. I liked that part because it made me think Carey and Charles wouldn't make it and Miss Price and Paul had already left. I felt as if I was with the 3 children and Miss Price.
Although this book comes in as one of my favorite books, it isn't a perfect book. I think every book has its pros and cons. What I didn't like about this book was when Emelius is over at Miss Price's house. I think I didn't really enjoy that part because of the wordings. How it was worded was very weird and it confused me. After I think about it, I don't remember much from that part. Nothing was made very clear to me. In my opinion, this book is a very good book except for this part in the book that I have mentioned.

The publishers must have demanded a sequel, so this is what Dahl came up with. Slow, repetitious, and not very imaginative.

The glass elevator goes up-up-up. So what will come next? It will go down-down-down. The grandparents take pills in order to get very, very young. What will happen next? They take pills to get very, very old, of course. But not without alot of repetitive dialog to make the whole story last longer. Ugh.

We both loved some of Dahl's other novels for their creativity and heart (for example, The BFG), but this one feels almost like it was written by someone else. Maybe kids will like reading this book to themselves, but reading it aloud to my daughter was a chore.

A Must have especially if you have the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Not a funny or as long as its prequel but a classic in its own right.

I really didn't know if I would enjoy this book as much as the first since the first half of the book is spent in outer space and not at the Chocolate factory. But once they do return to the factory, it picks up again. I still recommend this book, but the original is far superior. I don't know if I liked how selfish this book made Charlie's grandparents seem. This shouldn't be turned into a movie

This is an amazing book that follows Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It has many hair-raising chapters and also many exciting ones. If you have read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, read Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator next!

I am the mother of a two children, ages seven and five. We have read and reread nearly all of Roald Dahl's children,s stories. In general, I love this author. His stories are entertaining, even magical, and so beautifully written. When reading Dahl, I am always aware that my children are exposed to high quality literature with a richness of vocabulary and ideas. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is the only exception to our general delight with Roald Dahl. It is dark and lacks the sense of optimism, the charm, the magic of his other stories. Neither of my children enjoyed this book and I did not either. My advice would be to stop after Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and not pick up this sequel. Instead, grab Matilda, the BFG, or James and the Giant Peach and treat yourself and your kids to a real treasure!

Childrens book, but even for that, din motivate stuff appropriately. I had to give it half heartedly to the kid having thrown money :-((

THIS GUIDE IS VERY USEFUL AND INTERESTING. WE ARE TOTALLY BEGINNERS AND FACINATED AT THAT.

I bought this for our science homeschool since it had a children's award and we just got a telescope. I was disappointed that the first page covers the Big Bang theory - an explosion formed the sun and earth - as well as on page 25. Then on pages 46-47 it covers extraterrestrials. It says "most people believe we are not alone", and "most of us would like to believe that we are not alone in this vast universe". Although he states there is no scientific evidence of alien life, he goes on to fantasize about what aliens could be like, ending with the statement that they would be so far ahead of us technologically, that they may have seen us and since we look primitive they decided not to contact us! I'm going to return the book. Although the other information is well written and the pictures are helpful, I find his big bang and alien assumptions improper food for the minds of my young. I feel sorry for the author, for he would not feel so alone in the universe if he realized there is a God.

I bought this for our science homeschool since it had a children's award and we just got a telescope. I was disappointed that the first page covers the Big Bang theory - an explosion formed the sun and earth - as well as on page 25. Then on pages 46-47 it covers extraterrestrials. It says "most people believe we are not alone", and "most of us would like to believe that we are not alone in this vast universe". Although he states there is no scientific evidence of alien life, he goes on to fantasize about what aliens could be like, ending with the statement that they would be so far ahead of us technologically, that they may have seen us and since we look primitive they decided not to contact us! I'm going to return the book. Although the other information is well written and the pictures are helpful, I find his big bang and alien assumptions improper food for the minds of my young. I feel sorry for the author, for he would not feel so alone in the universe if he realized there is a God.

My eight-year-old grandson practically ate up this book, he was so excited and interested. He had gotten a telescope for Christmas and this book brought his explorations of the night sky to life.