Reddit reviews Exploring the Night Sky: The Equinox Astronomy Guide for Beginners

Source: Exploring the Night Sky by Terence Dickinson

http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Night-Sky-Astronomy-Beginners/dp/0920656668/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417547768&sr=8-1&keywords=astronomy+for+kids

http://www.amazon.com/4M-5219-solar-system-kit/dp/B00007L12U/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1417547768&sr=8-7&keywords=astronomy+for+kids

http://www.amazon.com/Night-Sky%C2%AE-Star-Wheel-Publishing/dp/1931559309/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1417547768&sr=8-11&keywords=astronomy+for+kids

stuff like this may help :) I literally searched astronomy for kids on amazon :)

Silly redditor

Babies can't read.


I had a pair of books that I would recommend to any parent. Exploring the Night Sky, and Exploring the sky by day. It's difficult to put into words what these books did for me as a child. It gave me an awesome sense of understanding. This when combined with the ridiculously ignorant interpretations of clouds, rainbows, and stars by other children and adults, made me realize that people just make shiat up when they don't understand something, even adults. That realization helped inoculate me against any other silliness not backed up by evidence.

Give the gift of knowledge. Kids are naturally curious about the sky, what with all the weird and wonderful things that can be seen.

I've never seen Bill Nye. In Canada in the 80s I did watch this show quite a bit though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTXoozcv01w

Bob MacDonald is still on TV all the time now too so everything's good.

I was more into reading astronomy and paleontology books on my own though because the chance of exactly what I was looking for being on TV one day was pretty low. The book I probably read more than any other was this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Night-Sky-Astronomy-Beginners/dp/0920656668

Exploring the Night Sky

This was my first real astronomy book when I was younger, I still have it and love it.