Cynthia Nicolson

This is a very good basic overview of facts about stars for young readers. It uses clear and concise language that the youngest readers can easily understand and contains many illustrates and photographs to accompany the text. I used only certain pages to talk more in-depth about topics we had already covered in my kindergarten class, but I later found one of my more advanced students reading aloud from the book to some of her classmates. So I guess they found it interesting enough to revisit!

Turn your eyes skyward and try to glimpse the Big Dipper or Orion's belt after you have read this simple, but informative book about our marvelous night sky. Thanks to NASA, we get small peaks that will help us locate the constellations.
Classroom Use: Give students star stickers and let them create a constellation in the night sky on black construction paper.

Genre: Inforamtional
This book gives information and facts about the earth, volcanoes, earthquakes and more natural disasters.