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My kids love to talk about the universe, identify planets, use the telescope and identify the constellations. Luckily for them, my husband shares this passion with them. They can talk for hours about it all and love watching eclipses and meteor showers together. If you are less than savvy about all things in the universe but have kids with loads of questions, I want to share something that can help you.<\/p>\n
Max Goes to Jupiter<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is an educational picture book written by an expert astrophysicist and educator whose books happen to be on board the\u00a0International Space Station<\/a>\u00a0 and are being read aloud by astronauts!<\/p>\n Dr. Jeffrey Bennett<\/a>\u00a0opens a window into space in the half-fiction, half-science story\u00a0Max Goes to Jupiter<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(Big Kid Science, June 2018, updated second edition with a special section for teachers and parents about how to use the book and \u201cStory Time From Space\u201d) which is also now available in Spanish:\u00a0Max Viaja a Jupiter<\/em>.\u00a0Read about Story Time from Space in this Huffington Post\u00a0article<\/a>.<\/p>\n