Look Up! Explore Our Universe Booklist

Age Ranges

Infant

• ABCs of Space By Chris Ferrie and Julia Kregenow
• Good Night Galaxy by Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper and Cooper Kelly
• Launch Ladies: An Illustrated Look at the Women who Bring Us to Space! By Jamey Erickson & Leila McNeill, illustrated by Lydia Fusco

Pre-K

•  Here we are : notes for living on planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers
•  Look Inside Space by Rob Lloyd Jones, Benedetta Giaufret and Enrica Rusiná

Early Elementary

• A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars by Seth Fishman, Jeremy Arthur and Isabel Greenberg
• Always Looking Up: Nancy Grace Roman, Astronomer By Laura Gehl, illustrated by Louise Pigott and Alex Oxton
• Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story by Jennifer Morgan and Dana Lynne Andersen
• Bright Sky, Starry City by Uma Krishnaswami and Aimée Sicuro
• CatStronauts by Drew Brockington
• Destination Space by Seymour Simon
• Galaxies, Galaxies! by Gail Gibbons
• Look Up!: Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer by Robert Burleigh and Raúl Colón
• Look Up with Me: Neil Degrasse Tyson: A Life Among the Stars by Jennifer Berne and Lorraine Nam
• Looking Up!: The Science of Stargazing by Joe Rao and Mark Borgions
• Max Goes to Jupiter by Jeffrey O Bennett, Nicholas Schneider, Erica Ellingson and Michael Carroll
• Max Goes to the Moon: A Science Adventure with Max the Dog by Jeffrey O Bennett and Alan Okamoto
• The Mysteries of the Universe: Discover the Best-Kept Secrets of Space by Will Gater
• Once Upon a Starry Night by Jacqueline Mitton and Christina Balit
• The Secret Galaxy by Fran Hodgkins and Mike Taylor
• Spaceships and Rockets by Deborah Lock
• Sparkles: A Supernova’s Dream Comes True by Rose M Barnett and Joshua E Carter
• Stars by Seymour Simon
• Starstruck: The Cosmic Journey of Neil Degrasse Tyson by Kathleen Krull, Paul Brewer, and Frank Morrison
• Super Stars: The Biggest, Hottest, Brightest, Most Explosive Stars in the Milky Way by David A Aguilar
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: I Know Exactly What You Are By Julia Kregenow, illustrated by Carmen Saldaña
• What Miss Mitchell Saw by Hayley Barrett and Diana Sudyka
• Write on … Space by Clare Hibbert
• Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin

Upper Elementary

• Astronomy: Cool Women in Space by Anita Yasuda and Lena Chandhok
• Destination: Space by Christoph Englert and Tom Clohosy Cole
• Exploring Constellations by Sara L Latta
• How to Be a Space Explorer: Your Out-of-this-World Adventure by Mark Brake
• Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet by Curtis Manley and Jessica Lanan
• Mission: Mars by Pascal Lee
• Space Dictionary for Kids: The Everything Guide for Kids Who Love Space by Amy Anderson and Brian Anderson
•  The Sun and Stars by Giles Sparrow
• Supernova! by Heather Hammonds and Lisa Simmons
• Supernovas by Ruth Owen

Tweens

• Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Gregory Mone
• The Big Bang and Beyond By Michael Bright
• Chasing Space: Young Readers’ Edition By Leland Melvin
• Find the Constellations by H A Rey
• Night Sky Watcher by Raman Prinja
• Planet Hunting: Racking Up Data and Looking for Life By Andrew Langley
• Planets, Stars, and Galaxies: A Visual Encyclopedia of Our Universe by David A Aguilar
• The Stars by H A ReyTeens

Teens

• Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space By Libby Jackson
• Visual Galaxy: The Ultimate Guide to the Milky Way and Beyond By National Geographic with a foreword by Chris Hadfield

Adult

• Constellations: The Story of Space Told Through the 88 Known Star Patterns in the Night Sky By Govert Schilling with original star maps by Wil Tirion
• Fusion by James A Mahaffey
• Galaxies and the Universe by World Book, Inc
•  The Great Canoes in the Sky by Stephen Robert Chadwick and Martin Paviour-Smith
• Imagined Life: A Speculative Scientific Journey among the Exoplanets in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals By James Trefil and Michael Summers
• Light from the Void By Kimberly Arcand, Grant Tremblay, Megan Watzke, Martin C. Weisskopf, and Belinda J. Wilkes, with an introduction by Eileen Collins
• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
• The Power of Stars by Bryan E Penprase
• The Stars We Know: Crow Indian Astronomy and Lifeways by Timothy P. McCleary
• See It with a Small Telescope: 101 Cosmic Wonders by Will Kalif