Book Review - Space Number Crunch

About the Book


This book about space gives kids all the facts, figures, and amazing information they want to know.

It's bursting with colorful infographics, high-impact artwork, and includes:

• Space Record Breakers: random record setters such as the Sputnik orbit, Halley's Comet, and space tourist Dennis Tito
• Astronauts: first spaceman and woman, most time spent in space, the first moon landing, astronaut records in space, and more
• Galaxies: information that ranges from the oldest galaxies (13 billion years old) to the sheer number of galaxies in the universe (at least 100 million)
• Telescopes: the first, the biggest, the most expensive, and the most powerful
• Space Technology: robots, rovers, satellites, probes, and special space tech
• Sun: fascinating facts about its size, temperature, and power
• Number Crunch quiz, and so much more

Each piece of data is based around a number, creating an entire book of easy-to-understand information that will delight even the most reluctant readers. The comprehensive coverage includes key space facts, from the International Space Station to the planets, animals in space, the weird and wonderful, and beyond.



My Take on the Book
This was a fascinating book for anyone interested in our galaxy, space exploration, our planets or other such things. Each page is filled with fun facts about all aspects of outer space. Some of the facts are humorous, but more will just open your eyes to the differences between our planets and what it really means to be a citizen beyond our mere planet. The book educates and entertains and by the end you have learned so much, or at least I know I did!

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Book Review - Visual Explorers: Space

About the Book
What's the Milky Way? What's a galaxy? How far away is the farthest planet in our solar system? How hot is the sun? Discover all this and more about deep, dark space. Engaging text, detailed facts, and impressive statistics give children exciting scientific insight into the world around them and the universe beyond. A glossary at the end of the book helps reinforce the information. Parents, teachers, and librarians will want to collect all of the books in this series to create a very cool first encyclopedia to build early research skills.



My Take on the Book
I think most people are fascinated with space and the objects in space. We are amazed by space travel and the photographs that satellites send back to Earth of other plants, stars, and even galaxies.

I enjoyed reading this book. It has beautiful photographs of the sun, planets, asteroids, comets, stars, galaxies and other space travel, including man landing on the moon. The text is easy to read, interesting, and adjacent to each photograph. Each section of text gives the reader specific information without a lot of reading.

I believe this book would be a nice one to share with your children and include in your home library.

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Book Review - Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011

About the Book
Humanity’s first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA’s Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole Space Shuttle program came into question, as did NASA itself, so long an institution that was seemingly above reproach. Wheels Stop tells the stirring story of how, after the Challenger disaster, the Space Shuttle not only recovered but went on to perform its greatest missions. From the Return to Flight mission of STS-26 in 1988 to the last shuttle mission ever on STS-135 in 2011, Wheels Stop takes readers behind the scenes as the shuttle’s crews begin to mend Cold War tensions with the former Soviet Union, conduct vital research, deploy satellites, repair the Hubble Space Telescope, and assist in constructing the International Space Station. It also tells the heart-wrenching story of the Columbia tragedy and the loss of the magnificent STS-107 crew.

As complex as the shuttle was, the people it carried into orbit were often more so—and this is their story, too. Close encounters with astronauts, flight controllers, and shuttle workers capture the human side of the Space Shuttle’s amazing journey—and invite readers along for the ride.


My Take on the Book
This was a great book filled with stories, some that I was aware of, but so many that were new to me. As someone who grew up with the highs and lows of the space shuttle, I loved reading this and appreciated all of the intricate details that were included in this book. There was so much that I was unaware of and this book shares it with the reader. You not only gain a better understanding of the technical side of things in regards to space travel and the shuttle, but you also get to know the people through the interviews and so much more that the author shares. On each page you are transported further and further into the book and even though at first the book may seem long, you will find yourself flying through this and compelled to read even more (or at least I was).

I highly recommend this to all, as it offers rich description and detail as well as unprecedented access to insider interviews and research that I have never come across before in a book on this topic before!


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