How Was Our Solar System Created?
Dad takes the young explorers on a journey through exploding stars, swirling space dust, gravity, baby planets and the birth of the Sun. With vivid illustrations, funny family conversations and wonderfully strange comparisons, the book turns a complicated scientific story into an adventure young children can follow.
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A Funny First Step into Space, Science and Curious Thinking
Big science made approachable
Funny family conversations
Encourages questions and curiosity
Ideal for reading together
“My six-year-old finally understood gravity—and then spent breakfast explaining it with socks, shoes and a giant laundry pile. Funny, clever and genuinely useful.”
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“Space books can sometimes feel dry or too advanced. This one explains big ideas with ordinary objects, silly examples and characters children actually enjoy.”
A Very Big Answer to One Brilliant Question
Children follow the story from ancient stardust and a swirling nebula to the formation of the Sun, planets and Moon.
Huge Science Explained with Everyday Things
These playful comparisons give children a visual way to understand enormous distances, sizes and forces without making the science feel like homework.
The Beginning of a Bigger Journey
Each adventure begins with one question and turns the answer into a funny family journey filled with facts, imagination and curiosity.
What other parents think:
“My son is obsessed with space but usually switches off when books become too factual. This kept him laughing while quietly teaching him a surprising amount.”
“Bright pictures, enormous explosions and lots of questions. Exactly what my five-year-old wanted.”
“The conversations between the children and their dad made the science feel friendly rather than intimidating. We stopped several times to talk about what we had learned.”
“My daughter now calls any exploding star Bob. I suspect that fact will remain in our family forever.”
“There is quite a lot of information, so we read it over several nights. That worked brilliantly because every section gave us something new to discuss.”
“My four-year-old loved the dog and the sound effects. My seven-year-old wanted to know more about supernovae. Both asked to read it again.”
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