This is an interesting book about Neil deGrasse Tyson. Sentences are very simple so younger readers could understand. I'm afraid the story feels a bit uncomplete this way. It's good that this book contains photographs, but I'm not sure about the design. I am missing something here. 3.5 stars

Part of a series of VERY early readers, this gives us just a hundred or two words about its subject, with clear, large-font sentences on the text pages and full-page images on those facing. The benefits of the book come from the end, when we get tips on following in the great man's footsteps, as before then it's really just too infant-friendly to actually convey that much information. He grew up in Brooklyn, so here's a page spent on showing us a (quite unrepresentative) image of the place. I'm all for engaging with STEM subjects at the right age – this just didn't seem to be aimed at one of those.

The pictures in this book were great. The sentences were very simple, but harder vocabulary was only defined in the glossary. It was difficult for readers to figure out what those words meant using only context clues. Young readers, who would benefit from the sentence structure, would struggle understanding what the words actually meant.