Roaring Rockets (Amazing Machines) by Kingfisher $9.95
Rockets have power. They rise and roar. This rocket's waiting, ready to soar. Rockets carry astronauts with cool, white suits oxygen helmets and gravity boots. Blast off with more out-of-this-world couplets! This time it is machines that fly. In bright and bold illustrations that are as witty as the text, the animal crew roars and whizzes into outer space.
There's No Place Like Space: All About Our Solar System (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library) by Aristides Ruiz $8.99
Au revoir, Pluto! In this newly revised, bestselling backlist title, beginning readers and budding astronomers are launched on a wild trip to visit the now eight planets in our solar system (per the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 decision to downgrade Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet), along with the Cat in the Hat, Thing One, Thing Two, Dick, and Sally. It’s a reading adventure...
13 Planets: The Latest View of the Solar System (National Geographic Kids) by National Geographic Children's Books $16.95
First, Pluto left. Then it came back, along with Ceres and Eris...and now Haumea and MakeMake, too! The recent actions of the International Astronomical Union have put every solar system book out of date. In response, National Geographic joins forces with David Aguilar of the Harvard Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory to revise our 2008 book—and to update young readers on the high-interest...
Airport by Byron Barton $6.99
From the excitement of arrival to the wonder of taking off -- a picture book that captures in joyous and powerful images all the magic of an airport.
On the Moon by Laura Fearn $9.99
Combining full-colour illustrations with NASA photographs from the surface of the moon, this illustrated picture book takes young children on an amazing journey into outer space.
What Makes Day and Night (A Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science Book) by Turtleback $16.00
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A simple explanation of how the rotation of the earth causes night and day.
First Space Encyclopedia (DK First Reference) by DK CHILDREN $16.99
The latest title in DK's First Reference series introduces the universe, visiting all the planets of our solar system and their moons, as well as our Sun and other stars, black holes, asteroids, comets, and other galaxies. Up to date with the latest astronomical theories, First Space Encyclopedia includes information about the great Pluto debate and the recent discovery of an Earth-like...
The Moon Seems To Change (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science: Stage 2 (Pb)) by Ed Emberley $16.00
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Explains the phases of the moon--the changes that seem to happen to it as it goes around Earth.
The Planets in Our Solar System (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2) by Kevin O'Malley $5.99
You live on Earth, so you already know a lot about it. But do you know about its place in out solar system? For instance, it's not the largest planet. If Jupiter were a hallow ball, 1,000 Earths would fit inside it. And did you know our planet Earth takes 365 days to go around the sun, while the planet Pluto takes 248 years? This simple text by Franklyn M. Branely introduces the nine planets in...
Airplanes by Byron Barton $17.89
Children explore the many ways we use airplanes, from seaplanes to crop dusters to planes that write messages in the sky. This very simple picture book about transportation ‘will delight the youngest, and have enough meat for older preschoolers and beginning readers.’ —K.