Children's Astronomy

With a foreword by Maggie Aderin-Pocock, budding astronomers will love this stunning, new approach to stargazing, featuring step-by-step guides to identifying the key constellations across the northern hemisphere, StarFinder for Beginners makes the night sky easier to navigate than ever before.

Everything young explorers needs to know to travel in space, covering what life in zero gravity is like, how to find your way around the solar system, and the all-important question of how to pee in a spacesuit! Unique illustrations take kids to the heart of the action and amazing photos show what the universe is really like. Incredible stories of real-life space exploration for kids aged 8 and up, by autho...

So you want to go into space? WHY?! (No, really - it's sort of a terrible idea. We humans are perfectly designed for life on Earth. We can walk around, breathe, drink water, eat vegetables, read books, not get poisoned or crushed to death when we go outside - it's lovely right where we are.)

Learn something about everything and discover the world as you've never seen it before with exploded images of everyday objects from cars and skeletons to pianos and chocolate! Each image has 13 mind-blowing facts plus a little myth-buster that takes young readers on an incredible factual adventure. Did you know that if you shaved a tiger its skin is stripy? Or that your skeleton replaces itself every 10 ye...

Amazing answers to more than 200 awesome space questions! Do You Know About Space? takes the reader on a galactic journey to answer all the probing questions children ask about space. What is a shooting star? Why is Jupiter stripy? Is anyone else out there? Featuring the most amazing space pictures from NASA, as well as the latest space news, this is a book perfect for young space fans as well as children n...

Bring stars, planets and spacecraft into your bedroom with this fantastic projector torch. Swap and change the projection domes easily by twisting and pulling them off the torch. Simply shine the torch around your room and turn your bedroom into a glowing galaxy. When the torch is not in use the on/off switch, the rim of the torch and the dome adaptor glow in the dark, making the torch easy to find in your ...

The Professor Astro Cat’s – Frontiers of Space is an illustrated book for children explaining everything about the sun, our planet, the solar system, our galaxy and the Universe with entertaining text and fantastic illustrations.

What’s in space? Where did it come from? And how do we know? See Inside Space by Katie Daynes and Peter Allen is a flap book of astronomical proportions, packed with facts and information about the stars, planets and the universe.

The latest addition to the "National Geographic Little Kids First Big Books Series", "Little Kids First Big Book of Space" is a visually compelling and approachable first reference book for 4-8 year olds who are eager to have their very own big books. Featuring fun, short entries about planets, stars, galaxies, and more, this charming book is perfect for reading aloud or for beginning readers to enjoy by th...

A fact-packed fun book of space themed puzzles. Test your knowledge and get thinking with this fact-packed National Geographic Kids fun book of space themed puzzles. Inside are brain-tickling quizzes as well as number games, crosswords and word searches, with fascinating facts along the way.

A fun activity book for 5-8 year olds, this exciting sticker book is full of awesome images of the planets and galaxies. With over 150 reusable stickers the book is a perfect introduction to the ever popular topic of the planets and intergalactic space. An introduction to the ever-popular topic of space and the amazing worlds that make up our solar system. Written in clear and easy-to-follow language and pa...

ASTRONAUTS is the game that takes you to the edge of the solar system. An astronomically great game that’s fun, easy to learn, educational and highly addictive. Astronauts is the ultimate space game as you race your opponents to explore the planets and moons of our solar system and then return safely back to Earth. Explore Mars, the moons of Jupiter, Saturn’s rings, Neptune, the Kuiper Belt and more a...

Inside this mega-jam-packed book are fifty fact-tastic ways to advance and improve your astronomy skills so you'll never feel alone in the universe again! Learn amazing space-related tricks such as how to watch a solar eclipse safely and mapping stars from your own back garden, right down to expertly simplifying the supermassive numbers and distances involved in the space between space so you'll never forge...

With this incredible 85 cm diameter Solar System Mobile you can explore the wonders of the universe from the comfort of your own bedroom! This Remote Controlled, motorised mobile has nine planets that actually orbit the sun; the sun also lights up and casts its glow on the detailed coloured planets.

This entry-level telescope has 12x optical magnification and a soft shell ocular lens cover (eye-piece) for greater comfort. Young researchers are able to view the stars at night, watch wildlife, or become seagoing pirates. The high-quality product ensures the scientific fun-factor remains intact.

The Children’s Map of the Solar System is a superb laminated wall map for little astronomers and astronauts eager to learn about the world beyond ours.

The Universe is big - bigger than you can possiby imagine... Zoom off to galaxies far beyond your wildest dreams. Find out how galaxies formed, how fast they're flying and what happens when they collide! And with plenty of activities included along the way, you can try making a universe balloon or swirling up your own galaxies in a cup. You'll soon discover The Universe Rocks!

The Earth is an amazing place, but that's really just the beginning...Take a journey through our Solar System and explore the beautiful, dangerous and astonishing worlds that lie beyond. And with plenty of activities included along the way, you can try constructing your very own erupting volcano or making a model Saturn. You'll soon discover The Universe Rocks!

My Amazing Sticker Atlas combines two folded wall maps, one of world and one of the planets with a two-part book, one section on the world and one on space, and both accompanied by stickers.

A stylishly illustrated non-fiction book about the search for life on Mars, told from the unique perspective of NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity. A fascinating book about the search for life on Mars told from the unique perspective of Curiosity, the Mars Rover sent to the red planet by NASA. Markus Motum's stylish illustrations and diagrams help tell the story of how and why this robot travelled 350,000,000 mil...