Category: Books for kids

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If you are looking for books that will help your child learn science and compassionate ethics, here are books and programs designed for children that will help you share what you know with your kids.


The Humanist Approach to Happiness – Book

The Humanist Approach to Happiness – Book

This is a book that basically says – here are personal ethics, here is why they are important, and here is how you can apply them to your daily life and why doing so will help you live a happier more productive life. Great for parents to use to help talk to their kids about why ethics are important and how to integrate ethics into their decision making.

What do you believe?

What do you believe?

What Do You Believe?  From DK - What Do You Believe? introduces readers to the many religions of the world and its equally numerous philosophies, from global religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism, to lesser-known faiths, and from ancient philosophers such as Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato, to modern thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Kant, and Sartre. Read more [...]
George’s Secret Key to the Universe

George’s Secret Key to the Universe

George's Secret Key to the Universe In their bestselling book for young readers, noted physicist Stephen Hawking and his daughter, Lucy, provide a grand and funny adventure that explains fascinating information about our universe, including Dr. Hawking's latest ideas about black holes. It's the story of George, who's taken through the vastness of space by a scientist, his daughter, and their super-computer named Cosmos. George's Secret Key to the Universe was a New York Times bestseller and a Read more [...]
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True – book

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True – book

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True This is a beautiful book illustrated by David McKean - Filled with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena: How old is the universe? Why do the continents look like disconnected pieces of a jigsaw puzzle? What causes tsunamis? Why are there so many kinds of plants and animals? Who was the first man, or woman? Starting with the magical, mythical explanations Read more [...]
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos – Book

Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos – Book

Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos For every child who has ever looked up at the stars and asked, "What are they?" comes the story of a curious boy who never stopped wondering: Carl Sagan. When Carl Sagan was a young boy he went to the 1939 World's Fair and his life was changed forever. From that day on he never stopped marveling at the universe and seeking to understand it better. Star Stuff follows Carl from his days star gazing from the bedroom window of his Brooklyn apartment, Read more [...]
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments  Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short—plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesn’t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that Read more [...]
Humanism. What’s that? A book for curious kids

Humanism. What’s that? A book for curious kids

Wonderful book by Helen Bennett – designed to help guide kids through a discussion about the philosophy of humanism, tolerance and different beliefs. It is laid out as a dialogue between a teacher and her students.

Theme: Elation by Kaira.
Florida, United States