I love that this book goes beyond just reading and includes activities as well. It's packed with exciting details about space, constellations, and planets. The range of activities, from mazes to word searches to tracing, adds an extra layer of fun and learning for readers.

Cute illustrations, age appropriate activities on nearly every page, and quite educational! My 7-year-old would love it.

This has been such a fun book to go through with my girls. They’ve just begun to be interested in astronomy — our five year old even got a telescope for Christmas — and this book has been essential for continuing her learning. Highly recommend for kids of all ages — there are lots of activities you can scale down to do with little kids or add onto for older kids to enjoy.

This is a pretty basic astronomy book geared toward early elementary kids divided into topical sections: sun and moon, inner solar system, outer solar system, star constellations, galaxies, star clusters, nebulae, comets, shooting stars, and stargazing activities. The pages are colorful and include an easy-to-read paragraph about the topic and a simple activity. The activities are a bit repetitive, including lots of tracing, color, connect the dots, word scramble, and maze-type exercises. This book could be good as an introduction to these topics, but I found it a bit lacking and don't think it offers anything new that would differentiate it from the many other similar activity books out there.

Thank you to Zeitgeist for gifting me with an ARC to review! All opinions are my own.

All budding astronomers, astronauts, astrophysicists, and other young scientists with their eyes to the sky will absolutely LOVE Aurora Lipper’s interactive learning guide 🔭 to the galaxy 🌌, it’s planets 🪐 , stars ✨ , moons 🌙🌝🌓 , asteroids ☄️ , suns ☀️🌞, rockets 🚀 and all things pertaining to space and beyond in her terrific children’s book, “Astronomy Activity Book for Kids.”

Full of games, word puzzles, art coloring projects, astronomy volcabulary words and terms, as well as advanced adult-assistance-needed nighttime stargazing activities for identifying constellations, Lipper’s guide for middle graders (or advanced early star explorers) is the perfect gift for all mini Trekkies in training.

Our six-year-old granddaughter requested a telescope for Christmas, so I know that “Astronomy Activity Book for Kids” is in her future.

JoyReaderGirl1 graciously thanks NetGalley, Author Aurora Lipper, and Publisher Zeitgeist, Z Kids for this advanced reader’s copy (ARC) for review.

What a neat, informative, and interactive book. The illustrations are great. Reading this as an adult I’ve learned some fun facts myself. The pages are interactive by tracing words, matching words, coloring, mazes, and word search to name a few. One of my favorite facts I learned is that Venus has over 100,000 volcanoes with the largest being over 5 miles high. Also RIP to Pluto for being a dwarf planet now. I liked the visual representation for the star constellations. The star gazing activities towards the end is a fun and easy way to plan a night staring at the night sky with your kids and having a guide to help you point out constellations. Also super cool this book was written by a former NASA scientist and mechanical engineer and current astronomer and pilot. We love women in STEM.

I received this as an advanced reader copy from net galley for an honest review.

I did not expect this book to be as long as it was. This was a well-made astronomy book. The facts were easy to understand, and the realistic illustrations mixed with the artwork were superb. I might have taken a liking to astronomy at a much younger age if I had had a book like this. Starting with making the book the child by asking them about themselves makes children more invested in their book. Along with facts and science, students can do activities to help keep them entertained.
The artwork in this book was bold and colorful.

This was a good read for me and my kids. We enjoyed learning about the planets and working on the activities. Thank you for a copy!

What an awesome activity book for kids 5-7 who want to learn everything about space, written by a former NASA scientist. This will influence many young readers to explore STEM projects and careers.

The activities in this book were informative and fun. The layout is nice and the answer guide helpful. Overall engaging and interesting activities.

I’ve spent way too much time lately writing equations on a chalkboard and thought I’d pick up this textbook to refresh my memory of the observational side of my department in case I ever need to teach a class for non-majors again.

The cover said “ages 5-7” without specifying units or the cosmological model used to calculate the age. I was alarmed by this piece of out-of-context data but decided to keep reading.

And thank goodness for that, because a few pages in, I discovered my first ever game of University Word Search. It’s a rite of passage.

The “Connect the Dots: Milky Way” chapter made me wonder - was this page written by engineers? I’ve never seen this many numbers in a physics text. Maybe I just don’t talk to observers enough, but I don’t think they use this many numbers in their work either.

At times, the text used jargon that might confuse freshmen, especially non-majors. One paragraph, mentioning a “retrograde orbit”, reminded of me of my very first day in front of a class of non-science undergraduates, when one bright young lad informed me that he “believes in astrology and is skeptical about science.”

Skepticism is healthy, of course. That’s why I cautiously award this text a 4.5. Although it might be too advanced for first- and second-year undergraduates, upperclassmen and faculty might find that the text attempts to cover too many topics and therefore doesn’t fit any specific research niche.

I thus recommend Aurora Lipper’s Astronomy text to graduate students in astronomy who are approaching qualifying exams and need a refresher on the classes they’ve taken so far.

See my full review, including images, on goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6087511320

4.5 stars.

Really fun activity book, my 7 yo loved all the mazes and wanted to rate this a 5 so I'm averaging our ratings for a 4.5. There were some unique facts about the planets, space etc., and I learned some things which was great.

This books is so cool! My daughter is super in to science, and will love the activities that are included.

I like that the book is well balanced with information, and things for kids to do that connect to what they have learned.

The images are also very well done! Going to look at getting a physical copy as part of her upcoming birthday gift!

My kids loved this book as did I! I learned just as much as they did. Maybe more! Definitely suggest this

It is a nice time of year to sit outside and enjoy looking up at the stars. Perhaps you are camping or you are spending time in your backyard. This year has been active with several interesting astronomy events. Aurora Lipper has written Astronomy Activity Book for Kids: 100+ Fun Ways to Learn About Space and Stargazing. It is a wonderful activity book relating to astronomy. It is a delightfully fun educational book with activities perfect for elementary age (ideally 5 to 7).

We got to see some of the Perseids Meteor Shower recently. #Netgalley had a copy to help me brush up on stellar vocabulary #AstronomyActivityBookforKids by Aurora Lipper, easy lesson prep #space + #stargazing #homeschool #NetGalley #lingo #Words #asteroids #meteorites #lookup

This is a delightful and fun book, a nice mix of facts and puzzles/games

I received an advance copy for free from NetGalley, on the expectation that I would provide an honest review.

Love this book!! I ended up purchasing on Amazon! Excellent! I love all the different learning activities and the illustrations are beautiful.

This is a great activity book for kids. After looking through this book, I know I would use this in our homeschooling space units to supplement the studies that we do. I would definitely recommend this to other parents when it is age appropriate.

If there is something I fond of and can never be bored from, it is physics. Now when you move further to its branches, Astro-physics and Nuclear-physics are my most favorite.

I really loved this picture book. There is lot more to learn from it for the childrens and I would like to recommend it to every such child in my nearby places, Aurora collected all sort of basic education on the subject to make children learn in fun-loving manner.
There is not just a learning but activities too which make them grasp in a better way. It is quite an informative as well as engaging educational activity book. Astronomy has alwasy affected science students and here Aurora worked on the same in a cool way.