World Space Week
It is World Space Week and school holidays! In addition to a lot of space-themed school holiday activities, we have a variety of collections about the space for children to explore. Have fun!
Kit Collection
Space Rocket Kit: Interested in outer space but not quite old enough for our telescope kit? When you borrow this Space Rocket kit all you need is a little imagination to bring interstellar travel home with you.
Mini Dobsonian Telescope Kit: Are you a budding astronomer? Do you want to explore the night sky? See craters on the moon? See the colours of Jupiter? Then this kit is for you! The Mini Dobsonian is a great no-frills telescope suitable for beginners so start observing today.
DVD Collection
The GadgetGang in Outer Space: When a spaceship crashes to Earth and reveals a group of quirky little space aliens on the run for their lives, the GadgetGang kids - Gus, Phoebe, Francesco, Mitsue, Mary Ann, Banana and Tank - soon discover this won't be the boring weekend they had expected. They learn that in a point far from the galaxy, an evil warlord named Gana Golber has seized control of the Confederation of Planets and now all the planets are in danger - including Earth!
Space Dogs. Adventure to the Moon: When the worlds most precious monuments disappear, an unlikely team of two legendary Russian canine astronauts and a heroic American monkey, jet off to the dark side of the moon to investigate the mystery.
Amazing Aliens: Young space explorers Nick, Taffy, and their talking spaceship, Clank, are called away from their relaxing intergalactic recon mission to find and apprehend a dangerous criminal fugitive. Enlisting a coterie of helpful allies, including old friends the Space Guardians, and dodging an array of colorful villains, the young explorers navigate and investigate the entire star system, in relentless pursuit of the elusive criminal and his shining ship of thieves.
Fanshaw & Crudnut. Slugs from Outer Space: Fanshaw and Crudnut are a pair of badly behaved, childish, bickering slugs from outer space. And they're on an intergalactic mission ... apparently. Their mission is to boldly go where no slug with half an ounce of common sense has ever been before. They travel through the galaxy in a beaten up flying saucer on a series of completely pointless quests that land them in the most ludicrous situations. Fanshaw and Crudnut are their own worst enemies and they manage to turn the simplest of chores into the biggest disaster, stoopidest argument or both! For Fanshaw and Crudnut it's a lose-lose situation.
Junior Picture Books
The Space Badge: Earn your Space Badge with Duggee! Duggee is looking through a telescope at things far, far away in outer space. It's time for Duggee to teach the Squirrels all about the wonders of our solar system and the planets! This fun picture book is the perfect book for sharing with little Duggee fans fascinated by Space!
The Trip: A deceptively simple book about the nature of inclusiveness. The concepts of mine, yours and ours get depicted and repeated throughout in this quirky, comic tale of an imaginary trip. The NEW Book Hungry Bears book collection features topical and imaginative stories used in The Book Hungry Bears TV show. From acceptance of diversity to blended families, this delightful series brings together compelling narrative to engage children in their emotional journey as they make sense of the world around them. These bears LOVE picture books and especially love reading them with each other. Sharing their delight and engagement with the books, they ask each other questions, point to the illustrations and get caught up in the story.
Stella the Astronaut: Stella is determined to be the first-ever squirrel in space. Her hopes are dashed when she finds that she's too small to go to Space School, but Stella won't let that stop her. Surely, if she's determined enough, she can still make her dream come true? Soar to the Moon with Stella, then discover the inspiring stories of four real-life spacemen and women. Mini biographies at the end of the book tell the amazing stories of four real-life astronauts and space scientists.
Junior Fiction Books
The Secret Explorers and the Moon Mission: A space expert and a geology expert take readers on an out-of-this-world adventure to the moon, where they must navigate the dangerous terrain to clear up space debris before it can interfere with a lunar mission.
Space Oddity: Science and laughs combine in this out-of-this-world adventure! You might think this story is an intergalactic adventure filled with laser blasters, black holes, killer robots and some very weird-looking aliens. And you'd be right. But it's mostly about a boy called Jake, his dad, and an awkward truth that starts in a supermarket ...
Space Fortress: Welcome to Level 4: SPACE FORTRESS - a game of exploration, aliens and angry robots with lasers! After only just managing to escape Level 3, gaming heroes Rip and Mei now find themselves drifting through the galaxy in a leaky spaceship! Their only chance of escape is to follow kooky George's impossible space mission. But first they'll have to survive a crash landing, outrun space pirates, and battle each other in a giant arena! And all they have for help is a panicky robot with a snowman obsession! Can Rip and Mei pull off Georges outrageous plan to save themselves, and everyone else trapped inside the game?
Junior Non-Fiction Books
The Truth About Space: Will you separate the facts from the fakes? Is it true you can't burp in space without being sick? Is the sun really the colour of a banana? What's the deal with gravity on the moon? Venus is upside down, is that fact or fake?
Behind the Scenes at the Space Station: experience life in space: Defy gravity with an access-all-areas pass to the spectacular International Space Station with this behind-the-scenes guide to life in space. Have you ever wondered what life is like in the International Space Station? Or whether plants can grow in space? Or how astronauts go to the loo in zero gravity? Or what it feels like to orbit Earth at 17,500 mph? Then this may be the book for you! Revealing a new perspective into the world of space exploration and the daring astronauts who make it possible, Behind the Scenes at the Space Station takes you on a once-in-a-lifetime tour of the International Space Station, as well as other amazing space stations past and present. Learn what it takes to get to space and what astronauts do once they make it there, from experiments to repairs, and so much more!
Space!: A spacetastic new edition brimming with incredible pictures and the latest facts about the Universe. From the origin of the Universe to the future of space rockets, this book about space for kids has it all. Did you know that the moon was once a piece of the Earth, and that a day on Venus is longer than one year? First published in 2015, Knowledge Encyclopedia: Space! has been completely revised and updated for 2021, with new images and information on all things space-related to send you rocketing to the furthest reaches of the cosmos. Newly updated with the latest scientific discoveries and innovation in space engineering, this book will answer all your questions about what lies beyond the night sky. Discover how stars and galaxies are formed, take a trip through the Milky Way, and explore the innards of the International Space Station in this incredible book that uses computer-generated 3D imagery, eye-catching photographs, gripping information, and explanatory diagrams to bring the wonders of the cosmos to life. Knowledge Encyclopedia: Space! is the Big Bang of space books, and it's just gotten bigger!