Constellations by Chris Sasaki, illustrated by Alan Flinn is a beautiful guide to the stars. Each page tells the story behind a constellation of stars such as Ursa Minor, the little bear that holds the North Star. The stories are taken from ancient history at a time when people stared up at the sky and imagined the meaning of it all.
This book is great to incorporate into science as students learn about the universe beyond our planet Earth. As an extra special touch the stars in every illustration glow in the dark! Better yet, the last section of the book titled A Constellation of Activities provides three different crafts including, inventing a new constellation with black construction paper and a pencil, creating your own constellation with tracing paper and a pencil to trace one of the constellations from the book then drawing a new picture with the stars as a guide, and my personal favorite, building a box of stars with a shoe box, tracing paper, pencil, kitchen foil, pin, tape, and scissors.
After reading Constellations, the students will see a sky full of stories.
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