Picture books of the sky

Sky Scouts

Picture books about the sky for curious kids, ages 8 to 11, and guides for 12 and up.

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The core books

ages8–11

One idea to a page. Etta and Gus look up from Juniper Hill, and far beyond it.

  • Book 1The Sky Dome
  • Book 2The Sun's Road
  • Book 3Star Pictures
  • Book 4Moon and Shadows
  • Book 5Round and Round
  • Book 6Rain of Stars
  • Book 7Snowballs with Tails
  • Book 8Far-Away Suns
  • Book 9The Rainbow Code
  • Book 10Islands of Stars
  • Book 11Maps of the Night
  • Book 12Light Buckets
  • Book 13The Star-Hopper's Atlas
  • Book 14One Road, Eight Worlds
  • Book 15The Winking Stars
  • Book 16Giant Eyes
  • Book 17How Big Is Everything?
  • Book 18Other Worlds
  • Book 19Our Star and Its Lights
  • Book 20Lost Without a Clock
  • Book 21The Other Half of the Sky

Night Guides

ages12+

Made to take outside: the real sky as it looks, then the same sky as a map.

  • Night Guide 1Winter Nights
  • Night Guide 2Spring Nights
  • Night Guide 3Summer Nights
  • Night Guide 4Autumn Nights
  • Night Guide 5The Messier Marathon
  • Night Guide 6Beyond Messier

People and the Sky

ages8–11

What people do under the sky, and with it.

  • People and the Sky 1The Sunshine Machine
  • People and the Sky 2Two Hundred Years of Clues
  • People and the Sky 3Where Did the Night Go?
  • People and the Sky 4A Sky Full of Satellites
  • People and the Sky 5Who Got to Look Up?

The Sky Wheel

ages12+

The planisphere app as an instrument, ending in a paper star wheel to cut out and build.

  • Stand-aloneThe Sky Wheel

For grown-ups

  • Thirty-three square books, 8.5 × 8.5 inches, each with forty pages inside.
  • Ages 8 to 11: the core books and People and the Sky. Ages 12 and up: Night Guides and The Sky Wheel.
  • Every sky in them is a real sky, worked out for a date and a place. No star pattern is made up.
  • Each core book and each People and the Sky book ends with a mission: things to find, to tell apart and to explain.
  • The words of twenty-eight of the books are also translated into eleven languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Norwegian, Polish and Chinese.
  • A rule of every book: no tip ever has anyone look at the Sun.