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For many many years I've reviewed and recommended kids' books about space. After a couple-year hiatus, I'm finally back at it! I'll use this thread to review and recommend books to give to kids of all ages, or to libraries or schools.

#EmilysSpaceBooks incoming!
I have one new board book to recommend this year: Star Trek: My First Book of Colors by @robbpearlman, illustrated by Jason Kayser. I love a board book that lets a parent pronounce long, fun words like “iridescent” and “quantum singularity.”

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(Note: All my review posts will have links to Amazon because I can earn a bit of holiday $ as an Amazon Affiliate. But I heartily encourage everyone to support your local indies. Get the ISBN from the Amazon page and call up your local bookstore and ask them to order it for you!)
This and all my other #EmilysSpaceBooks recommendations for kids age 0-3 are on my website here:

www.lakdawalla.com/emily/blog-patreon/kids-space-books/kidsbooks-0-to-3/
Now for my absolute favorite part of this process: reading through the new picture books in my pile! As I review them, I'll post #EmilysSpaceBooks recommendations for kids age 4-7 on this page. Stay tuned!

www.lakdawalla.com/emily/blog-patreon/kids-space-books/kidsbooks-4-to-7/
I'm recommending _Goodnight, Astronaut_ by Scott Kelly @StationCDRKelly, illus. @izzyburtonart. Kelly has slept in a lot of interesting places! Writing is EXCELLENT. Bedtime book or text to teach consonance, assonance, and alliteration!
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I'm recommending _The Boy Whose Head Was Filled With Stars_, by @isamarinov, illus @deborahmarcero. I love the illustrations & use of metallic text to set off scientific questions that motivated Hubble's stargazing.
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I'm recommending _The Stuff Between the Stars_, by @senickel, illus @aimeesicuro. A well-told biography of Vera Rubin, of persistence in the face of sexism. I love the illustrations, especially the one depicting astronomy while pregnant!
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I'm recommending _Drop_, by @emilykatemoon. An adorable drop's eye view of the water cycle, adventures from river to cloud and glacier to iceberg, fun to read aloud both narration and Drop's side commentary.
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@emilykatemoon For kids 8-12, I'm recommending Sky Gazing: A Guide to the Moon, Sun, Planets, Stars, Eclipses, and Constellations by Meg Thatcher. An outstanding, information-packed encyclopedia on all things in the sky for curious kids, in a big format
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For high schoolers, I'm recommending Phenomena: Doppelmayr's Celestial Atlas, by Giles Sparrow. Gorgeous, heavy, impressive, remarkably easy to read, beautiful reprint of 18th century celestial atlas w/comment & context & so many pictures
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For kids 13+, I'm recommending Seven Stories About the Moon and 101 Other Science Poems, edited by Penny Boyce and Katie Coppens. Wide-ranging, diverse voices, some accessible, some challenging. Good resource though cheaply printed.

amzn.to/3OUWapY

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For young children, I'm recommending _The Big Bang Book_, by Asa Stahl, illustrated by Carly Allen-Fletcher. It packs gently mind-blowing ideas about the beginning of everything (universe, galaxies, planets, You) into its few pages.

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I'm grateful to publishers for sending me review copies of all these books. It still takes lots of time for me to sift through and read and review and post reviews. If you appreciate this work and want to express that appreciation, please consider: patreon.com/elakdawalla
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