One of the coolest things about our unit on space was seeing how the content is always being revised. We read older books that still counted Pluto as a planet and newer books that explained its new status; the changing discoveries displayed in the texts reminded us how much more there is to explore! In this list, I’ve tried to only include the most updated texts, though there may be some exceptions where the rest of the content is strong. And I’m sure in a few years, the content in even the best of these will require updating. That’s part of the pleasure of learning and recognizing that our place in space is always open to new knowledge.

1. Watch The Cat in the Hat Knows a lot about that: Space is the Place!
2. Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian
3. Watch Eyewitness: Planets
4. If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty and Steven Kellogg
5. The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons
6. Mousetronaut by Astronaut Mark Kelly, illustrated by C. F. Payne
7. Planets by Elizabeth Carney
8. Reaching for the Moon by Buzz Aldrin, paintings by Wendell Minor
9. Watch The Magic School Bus Space Adventures
10. The Magic School Bus Super Star Power
11. Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca
12. National Geographic Little Kids’ First Big Book of Space by Catherine Hughes and David Aguilar
13. Our Solar System by Seymour Simon
14. There’s No Place like Space! All about Our Solar System by Tish Rabe and Aristides Ruiz