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Would You Rather? Space Gamebook for Kids is an interactive gamebook jam-packed with more than 126+ challenging choices, funny jokes, silly scenarios, fascinating facts, and contains hours of hilarious family fun! Watch kids use their creative brainpower to answer questions that improve writing skills, reading comprehension, and verbal confidence. We even give them the ability to write their own would you rather questions!

This audiobook introduces younger listeners to the magic of the night sky. A broad range of topics are covered including telescopes, comets, meteors, and planets. Learn about the life cycle of stars and what you can see at night with the naked eye or using telescopes. Understand the life cycle of planets and the different types of planets in the universe. Explore how stars are sorted according to their brightness and learn about some of the more important constellations that you can see at night.

Kick-start your future genius! Tinker Toddlers is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction emerging STEM concepts to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. Look up at the night sky. What do you see? From the award-winning Tinker Toddlers series, Solar System for Kids is a great way to introduce the eight planets in our solar system and beyond. With interplanetary travel a real possibility for the next generation, this space book will launch your little astronomer on an amazing space adventure - with colors, shapes, sizes, and super-simple facts.

On their journeys, they’ll discover volcanic moons, mysterious dwarf planets, and much more! This volume includes The Asteroid Belt, The Dwarf Planets, and The Inner Planets.

Welcome to "A-Z Alphabet, Astronomy & 'I Am' Affirmations for Kids." This journey combines cosmic exploration with self-empowerment, guiding children through an adventure of learning and affirmation.

Embark on an unforgettable journey through space with "Exploring Our Solar System: A Children's Guided Adventure"! This engaging and educational book invites young listeners to explore the wonders of our solar system, from the scorching surface of Mercury to the icy plains of Pluto. Filled with fascinating facts, this book makes learning about the planets, moons, asteroids, and comets a fun and exciting experience. Join a group of happy and curious children as they don their spacesuits and point excitedly at the cosmic wonders around them.

Have you ever looked up at the night sky and imagined what might be out there? You’re not alone! People have been wondering that for thousands of years. Technology like telescopes and space shuttles are quite new, so before we could really investigate space, people would make up stories about what they thought was up there.

This exciting second book in the Lost series tells the incredible true story of the doomed Apollo 13 moon mission that nearly ended in disaster. On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 space shuttle set off for the third intended American moon landing. Two days later and 200,000 miles from Earth, disaster struck when an oxygen tank exploded onboard the spacecraft, leaving three astronauts with only one goal: to make it home alive.

How can the moon or sun seem to disappear right before our eyes? When the moon, the Earth, and the sun align just right in their orbits, they can cause a solar or lunar eclipse! Find out how light and shadow work together to trigger these cool events.

Space is such an amazing part of our worlds existence, but it can seem complicated to explain to adults, let alone kids! This book will trigger the natural curiosity within young children with amazing facts about the mysteries of space. From the very basics of what the galaxy is, right through to the name of the first man on the moon, this book relays the complexity of space into really easy and understandable explanations.

This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great - the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction listeners and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. This volume tells the story of Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon.

John Farrell takes kids on a rhyming tour of the night sky, from A to Z, with facts about the wonders of space. From distant Andromeda, a galaxy made up of billions of stars, to the constellation of the zodiac, Farrell covers the high points of outer space. How do you find Jupiter or Venus? How does the Moon cause the tides of Earth's shores? How can you find the North Star, and why do all other stars seem to go around it? The answers to these and many other questions are contained in this beautiful volume of science that will delight a young listener's imagination.

Sarla wished she could fly high like an eagle or like an aeroplane. Of course you can fly, said her new teacher. Here, Sarla shares all that she has learnt about flight and aeroplanes.

Humans have always been fascinated by the universe, but only a few have been daring enough to travel beyond the Earth. From venturing into space for the first time to building the International Space Station in orbit, the history of space exploration is filled with peril, bravery and strokes of genius. In this beautifully illustrated anthology, spaceflight expert, Libby Jackson, reveals the very best true stories of humankind's thrilling journey to the stars.

Katherine knew it was wrong that African Americans didn't have the same rights as others - as wrong as 5+5=12. She knew it was wrong that people thought women could only be teachers or nurses - as wrong as 10-5=3. And she proved everyone wrong by zooming ahead of her classmates, starting college at 15, and eventually joining NASA, where her calculations helped pioneer America's first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world's first trip to the moon!

Listen and relive the exciting tales from Highlights, now on audio! Learn how the Horsehead Nebula got its name and shape and what astronauts have to wear in space, along with other stories about outer space.

Kids who enjoy looking up at space and dreaming of exploring the solar system will love this lively, fact-filled tour of our galaxy, with engaging information.

The launch of Mars rovers by NASA, Europe and China in 2020 will reveal more about Mars than ever before. Get ahead with this amazing new book, which explores the evidence for past life on Mars, what's happening there now and what it might look like to one day live on the red planet. Be amazed by the tallest mountain in the solar system, discover how houses on Mars could look and find out if you've got what it takes to join the teams travelling to Mars in the coming years.

Have you ever wondered why the days are so long in the summer and short in the winter? Or why we have hot weather and colder weather? Read on to learn about the Earth, how it spins around the Sun, and the seasons!

A little boy is out for a walk meets a new friend, the Sun! The sun tells the little boy about himself and all of the important things he does for Earth. Did you know that the sun is a star? Explore space with the sun as he tells you about why we have night and day!