Saturday, May 14, 2011

Museums and Books (and Outer Space)

Museum trips can be great fun for kids, and they can learn a lot, too.  If you go to a museum where you find something that really fascinates your children, a book or two to reinforce what they learned at the museum can be a wonderful thing.

My daughter loves science - right now she loves astronomy and she wants to be an astronomer when she grows up.  We went to visit the Smithsonian Institution's Air & Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center today, and I thought that a great way to follow up on our visit would be to look at a few space books.  Of course, there are several great Usborne books to choose from!

She already has See Inside Space - it's one of her favorite books.  I think I might get her the First Encyclopedia of Space.  She's looked at it before, and narrowly chose See Inside Space instead.  Of course, she loves dot-to-dot puzzles, so Dot-to-Dot in Space might be a nice, fun treat.

There are lots of other great choices, too - which space book would your child like?

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