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Mary G
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Posted: Aug 26 2009 at 11:30am \| IP Logged

Does anyone know a GREAT read-aloud, living lit book with an astronomy theme? Maybe about a kid that gets fascinated with the stars or planets ... a book like Burgess writes, but about stars/planets ... or a book like Porter-Stratton but about stars ... or like Sterling North but about planets?

Anyone?

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Posted: Aug 28 2009 at 5:41pm \| IP Logged

I am sure you have probably already looked in these places, but just some ideas...

Simply Charlotte Mason.com recommends Carry On, Mr. Bowditch. My favorite resource is MacBeth's Astronomy Opinion

Exploring the Sky: Projects for Beginning Astronomy also looks promising.

We haven't come across any like what you are looking for since we haven't studied astronomy yet, but I hope these help with some ideas.

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Posted: Aug 29 2009 at 12:00pm \| IP Logged

Has anyone ever seen this? I can't tell if it would just have picture books or if novels might be included. I may have to request it through ILL.

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Posted: Aug 29 2009 at 1:55pm \| IP Logged

If you use the *search inside this book* function at the amazon.com site you can see some of the books recommended within the book complete with short notes.

At first glance there are alot of myth and folklore, many non-fiction books and a handful of storybooks, at least one novel, most books appear to be illustrated.

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Posted: Aug 29 2009 at 2:18pm \| IP Logged

A very interesting introductory book on the solar system for Jr. High and older would be The Planets by Dava Sobel. It's a bit of a fun grab bag pondering the solar system and what it has inspired in us which would make it a good starter for Rabbit trails.

My only real beef with the book is that it really needs pictures! She spends so much time describing the planets and I'm so bad at visualization.

Fortunately it's not that hard to find books with beautiful pictures of the solar system to go along with this one.

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