Nigel Henbest

This is a cute little astronomy guide that gives you the basics on what to look for in the night time sky. What I like about it is is that along the way, as you are reading details about the objects in the night time sky, they give you exercises for you to try and see if you can spot said objects. They have it on a points systems sort of like a game and you have to see how many points you can score. Point is, it gets the reader to be interactive with the activities.

This book is really about seeing the universe in the wavelengths our eyes do not detect; infrared, ultraviolet, radio waves and so on. The book discusses both the images that have been obtained and the telescope that was used to obtain the images. Then it describes the astronomy behind the emmisions in those wavelengths.

The Space Atlas: A Pictorial Atlas Of Our Universe is a very large information book that I checked out for my science content/genre study project. It is filled with beautiful maps, striking photographs, and informative charts and diagrams. Each content subject is layed out over two pages in an organized fashion. There are subheadings and captions to help distinguish which text goes with each of the pictures. All of the content in the atlas is accurate and complex because the text goes into show more great detail. This is a wonderful book for upper elementary school children who want to learn anything and everything about about outer space. show less

Quite thin but largish-format with elaborate color drawings and nonlinear swatches of text. Does surprisingly well as a quick introductory survey of cosmology.