Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.

Acclaimed author-illustrator Bonnie Christensen adopts the voice of Galileo and lets him tell his own tale in this outstanding picture book biography. The first person narration gives this book a friendly, personal feel that makes Galileo's remarkable achievements and ideas completely accessible to young readers. And Christensen's artwork glows with the light of the stars he studied.
Galileo's contributions were so numerous—the telescope!...

"How many stars are in the sky? How did the universe begin? Where did it come from? This is the story of Edwin Hubble, a boy fascinated by the stars who surmounted many hurdles to follow his dreams of becoming an astronomer. Using the insights of great mathematicians and endlessly observing the sky, he succeeded in confirming two things that altered human life forever: that there are more galaxies than our own, and that the universe is always expanding....

Galileo was the extraordinary astronomer and inventor who, at the risk of his reputation and freedom, rediscovered that the Earth travels around the sun. For refusing to support a false view of the universe, he spent the last eight years of his life under house arrest.