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Planetarium

Vicki Palmquist — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 13:00:39 +0000

My fascination with outer space is well-documented. I had star charts on my childhood bedroom walls. But this book would have enthralled me … in fact, it still does.
The illustrations by engraver and printmaker Chris Wormell are detailed in a way that aids understanding. Scale is a tough concept for our comprehension but this book tackles that with infographics that give a sense of how enormous our universe is.

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A Cat’s Guide to the Night Sky

Vicki Palmquist — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:00:51 +0000

A dearly drawn cat named Felicity—honoring Félicette, a stray cat in Paris who became the first cat in space on October 18, 1963—takes us on an exploration of stargazing. As a book on observational astronomy, it’s an exciting book for kids and adults alike.
Short paragraphs cover what to wear when stargazing, where to go for maximum viewing, the classification of stars, constellations, planets, galaxies, and short-short stories behind the constellations of each season.… more

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Bookstorm™: The Stuff of Stars

Vicki Palmquist — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:24:09 +0000

Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was … nothing. But then … BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. In a poetic text, Marion Dane Bauer takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while vivid illustrations by Ekua Holmes capture the void before the Big Bang and the ensuing life that burst across galaxies.… more

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When a Prince Needs a Mechanic

Vicki Palmquist — Tue, 19 May 2015 12:00:40 +0000

by Vicki Palmquist
With a deft story and otherworldly art, Deborah Underwood and Meg Hunt bring us Interstellar Cinderella, a fresh and welcome take on the familiar fairy tale with a bit of Androcles and the Lion and The Jetsons thrown into the mix.
In this version, Cinderella loves fixing anything mechanical. She has her own set of special tools, all carefully drawn and named on the endpapers for the kids who love identifying things.… more

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Literary Madeleine: Grasping at Stars

Vicki Palmquist — Tue, 05 May 2015 12:00:48 +0000

by Vicki Palmquist
How many children, over how many years, have learned from their parents to identify the stars that make up the Big Dipper? Can you see them standing outside, pointing to the stars in the dark sky, tracing the make-believe line that draws a saucepan in the heavens?
My mother told me some of the stories she knew about the constellations, about the Great Bear and Orion and Andromeda.… more

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