Smart Kids: Space: For Kids Who Really Love Space! Hardcover – Illustrated, May 22, 2012

This large rectangular book is filled with colorful illustrations. It is perfect for a read a loud for pre-schoolers or lower elementary. My 3 year old who has a great interest in space loved it. Older elementary school students should fiind the facts interesting and illustrations interesting. There is a time line and glossary at the back. My one criticism would be that they color highlightvarious words but there is not a definition of the word or if it is a common word like traveling, why would that be highlighted? I still gave it a 5 star review as it is well bound and for $7.44 it was a deal.

I LOVE this book and I know my daughter will too, when I give it to her for her 7th birthday in 2 weeks! But I might not be able to wait that long lol. Shes been obsessed with EVERYTHING SPACE related and all she's been watching on YouTube! We dont have a space book yet,and so glad to come across this,and for such a great price too! I'm sure this will be her new FAVORITE book we'll read every night before bed! I love that the pages are the THICK paper so it wont be easily ripped,if you have young kids who loves to turn the pages a little to fast lol. It came super fast and has so much information that any kid who loves space,will love to read/learn! I hope my picture uploaded right. I wanted to include a few pictures that I think any buyer would like to know about the book,without posting every page lol. DEFINITELY RECOMMEND!!

We use books like this for a prison program in which inmates who qualify by meeting good-behavior standards select a book for their children and then are recorded reading the book. The book and the recording are sent to the inmate’s family at no cost to inmate or family. The father who selected this particular book was ecstatic about the quality and content of the book.

This book says it's good for 5+, but my son, who started to show an interest in space when he was 2-almost-3, LOVES it. He's almost 4 now and still enjoys reading it almost every day. There is one very annoying typo (humans is misspelled on one page) but other than that it is a good and informative book. When I read it to my son I don't read everything on every page. So the next time, I can read the things I didn't read the last time. It has a lot of information, but has helped my son memorize the order of the planets, and learn facts about each planet. It also talks about nebulas, craters, space tourism, and of course space shuttles and rockets. In the back of the book is a timeline of space related events and the final pages include definitions of things mentioned in the book.I highly recommend this book. It's fun for both of us to read. It has nice, bright photos and is large - but not too big. All in all a wonderful book for any kid!

Nice photos, mostly good facts. Not sure how one got through that said “Halley’s comet… the only comet you’re likely to see in your lifetime!” A quick google search by the author/editor would have clarified that’s not true and there have been several in the past few years (remember Neowise, Hale-Bopp? And those are just ones significant media attention).

My grandson decided he wanted a spaceship birthday party for his 5th birthday, so I bought this book to read to him before that. He could not get enough of it and took it to bed with him at night to read until he fell asleep. The pictures are colorful and the planet depictions are large and inspiring for young minds. I'm so glad I bought this book! It's very well done.

The illustrations are so real. My student goes straight for this book everytime. They may not know how to read all of it but they still look at every page over and over.

Love this book. It can be easy for a 4 year old as I don't read everything and let him point out what he knows, It's also great for the 6 year old who can handle more details. Me? I'm a grandma having a ball learning all this again. You'll have to check on Pluto! Things have changed. Great book for beginners or those that already know a lot. :-)