An Astronomical Children's Reader
Fred Stoss, University at Buffalo, SUNY
8 January 2009
Nonfiction Works
11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System
David A. Aguilar
Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2008
Are We Alone? Scientists Search for Life in Space
Gloria Skurzynski
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2004
Astronomy
Kristen Lippincott
New York: DK Publishing, 2004
Copernicus: Founder of Modern Astronomy
Catherine M. Andronik
Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2002
Exploring the Solar System: A History with 22 Activities
Mary Kay Carson
Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press, 2006
Faraway Worlds: Planets Beyond Our Solar System
Paual Halpern and Lynette Cook
Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Pub., 2004
Galileo: THe Genius Who Faced the Inquisition
Philip Steele
Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2005
Janice VanCleave's Solar System: Mind-Boggling Experiments
You Can Turn into Science Fair Projects
Janice Pratt VanCleave
New York: Wiley, 2000
The Kids Book of the Night Sky
Ann Love, Heather Collins and Jane Drake
Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2004
Killer Rocks from Outer Space: Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites
Steven N. Koppes
Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Co., 2004
Know the stars
H.A. Rey
New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1969
Life on Earth-and Beyond: An Astrobiologist's Quest
Pamela S. Turner
Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2008
Looking for Life in the Universe: The Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence
Ellen B. Jackson and Nic Bishop
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002
A New Way to See the Stars
H.A. Rey
London, UK: Hamlyn, 1966, 1952
Next Stop, Neptune: Experiencing the Solar System
Alvin W. Jenkins and Steve Jenkins
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Night Sky Atlas
Robin Scagell
New York: DK Publishing, 2004
Once Upon a Starry Night: A Book of Constellation Stories
Jacqueline Mitton and Christina Balit
Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2003
Out-of-This-World Astronomy: 50 Amazing Activities and Projects
Joe Rhatigan anad Rain Newcomb
New York: Lark Books, 2003
See the Stars: Your First Guide to the Night Sky
Ken Croswell
Honesdale, Pa.: Boyds Mills Press, 2000
Space
Will Osborne, Mary Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca
New York: Random House, 2002
The Stars: A New Way To See Them
H.A. Rey and Fritz Eichenberg
Boston, AM: Houghton Mifflin (multiple printings)
Ten Worlds: Everything That Orbits the Sun
Ken Croswell
Honesdale, Pa.: Boyds Mills Press, 2006
Universe
Martin Rees
New York: DK Publishing, 2005
Voyager to the planets
Nechia H. Apfel
New York: Clarion Books, 1991
Fictional Works (apart from Star Wars)
Alien Secrets
Annette Curtis Klause
New York: Delacorte Press, 1993
Aliens Ate My Homework
Bruce Coville and Katherine Coville
New York: Pocket Books, 1993
Another Day in the Milky Way
David Milgrim
New York: G.P. Putman's Sons, 2007
Ark Angel
Anthony Horowitz
New York: Philomel, 2006
Astro Bunnies
Christine Loomis and Ora Eitan
New York: Putnam, 2001
The Best Teacher in Second Grade
Katherine Kenah and Abby Carter
New York: Harper Cpllins, 2006
Company's Going
Arthur Yorinks and David Small
New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2001
Dancing with an Alien
Mary Logue, 2000
New York: Harper Collins, 2000
George's Secret Key to the Universe
Lucy Hawking, S.W. Hawking, Christophe Galfard
New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007
The Magic School Bus Takes a Moonwalk
Joanna Cloe and Carolyn Bracken
New York: Scholastic, 2004
Sondok, Princess of the Moon and Stars
Cari Best and Giselle Potter
New York: Farra, Straus and Giroux, 2001
Space Case
Edward Marshall and James Marshall
New York Dial Press, 1980
Space Race
Sylvia Waugh
New York: Delacorte Press, 2000
Stanley in Space
Jeff Brown and Scott Nash
New York: Harper Trophy, 2003
The Way Back Home
Oliver Jeffers
New York: Philomel Books, 20008
Wormwood
G.P. Taylor
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004
