We keep returning to different variations and offshoots from our original space unit, “Our Place in Space.” We’ve also done “Earth, Moon, and Stars,” but this time we focused on the folks who make space travel possible. There’s science and biography here as well as some science fiction—all with a focus on astronauts and spaceships. The image above shows the LEGO set my elder daughter got for Christmas: Women of NASA. It’s incredibly inspiring to read about the work required to make these characters’ dreams of space possible, and I have a feeling we’ll be looking to the stars in another list soon.
- ABC’s from Space by Adam Voiland
- Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon by Torben Kuhlmann
- Astronaut Handbook Meghan McCarthy
- Astronaut Scott Kelly: My Journey to the Stars by Scott Kelly and André Ceolin
- The Best Book of Spaceships by Ian Graham
- Black Stars in Orbit: NASA’s African American Astronauts by Khephra Burns and William Miles
- Buzz Aldrin: Reaching for the Moon by Buzz Aldrin and Wendell Minor
- Catstronauts: Mission Moon by Drew Brockington
- Eight Days Gone by Linda McReynolds and Ryan O’Rourke
- Footprints on the Moon by Alexandra Siy
- Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly
- National Geographic Little Kids’ First Big Book of Space by Catherine Hughes and David Aguilar
- Look to the Stars by Buzz Aldrin and Wendell Minor
- Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed and Stasia Burrington
- Mousetronaut by Astronaut Mark Kelly and C.F. Payne
- Mousetronaut Goes to Mars by Astronaut Mark Kelly and C.F. Payne
- My First Book of Space, Developed in Conjunction with NASA by Rosanna Hansen and Robert Bell
- Sally Ride: Life on a Mission by Sue Macy
- This Is the Way to the Moon by M. Sasek
- To the Stars! The First American Woman to Walk in Space by Carmella Van Vleet, Dr. Kathy Sullivan, and Nicole Wong
- Who Was Sally Ride? by Megan Stine
- Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Adventures by Chris Barton and Don Tate