A basic guide for beginning observers of the night sky, introducing informati on the locations, names, and characteristics of stars. This book is aimed at young teenagers aged 10-15 years.
Winner of the 1987 New York Academy of Sciences Children's Science Book Award, Exploring the Night Sky is aimed at novice star gazers anxious to expand their astronomical repertorie beyond the Big and Little Dippers. Dickinson has designed a superb introduction to astonomy that is clear, concise, and very "user friendly" no matter what the child's age. 50 color photographs and illustrations.