Comets, Stars, the moon and mars

Comets, stars, the moon, and mars is a children's book written and illustrated by Douglas Florian.
This is a nice way to start young children learning about astronomy and the universe around them. It starts with stars and goes through, constellations, our solar system (updated with Pluto as a dwarf planet) and continues out to the great beyond.
The poems are catchy and fun to say, some can become great tongue twisters.
The illustrations are not just pictures they are labeled. The parts of a comet, the craters and moons of planets, and on earth there are representations of wildlife on their appropriate continents.

If you have a young child who is interested in stars, or that you want to get interested in stars this is a good book to start with.

There is also a selected bibliography in the back of the book that lists top of the field references for all ages. I do suggest that adults try Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time before trying to explain it to their five year olds.