Burnham Memorial Library

Provides information on the mythology of constellations and which ones are visible in each season, and discusses the brightness of stars, light years, and the solar system.

General information about stars is presented in simple text by animal characters.

"As a curious little chipmunk leaves his nest to greet the twilight, he gazes at the glittering sky above him. He can't help but also notice the sparkling dewdrops on a spider's web, the lights of the fireflies, and the shimmers of moonlight on the water. 'How I wonder what you are!' marvels the tiny creature, launching a dreamlike quest to reach for the stars."--Amazon.com.

Eager to have a star of his own, a boy devises imaginative ways of catching one.

The Squirrel pals get a bit overenthusiastic in their efforts to help Zoom Squirrel fulfill his dream of sleeping under the night stars.

Simple rhyming text describes the stars and planets of the solar system.

An introduction to the stars and their rotation in the sky. Includes charts of their positions in the heavens during each season.

Publisher Annotation: 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,...

Fancy Nancy and her father love stargazing, and during her first campout under the stars she describes the heavens to him and her sister, JoJo, using her fancy words.

Contains a number of NASA photographs, original diagrams, and illustrations that examines the stars and galaxies in the universe, and describes how the ancients viewed the constellations, the life and death of a star, and much more.