Marianne Dyson went from being one of the first ten women flight controllers for NASA to writing children's books about space. She has three books with Scholastic, one with National Geographic, and one with Facts On File. She has a degree in physics and serves as technical consultant and reviewer for several publishers. Read some of her work for free through her website: www.mdyson.com.  

Dyson's book, Home on the Moon, won the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award in the children's category. This award consists of a $3,000 prize, an inscribed Windsor chair, and a certificate. Her first book, Space Station Science (Scholastic, 1999/Windsor 2004), won the Golden Kite Award for best nonfiction children's book of 1999. The National Science Teachers Association/Children's Book Council named it an Outstanding Trade Book for 2000, and it made Booklist's Top Ten list of youth science books. An updated second edition is now available in paperback. Dyson is also the author of Homework Help on the Internet (Scholastic, 2000) and The Space Explorers Guide to Stars & Galaxies (Scholastic's Space University series, 2004), and Space and Astronomy: Decade by Decade (2007). Her short fiction has been published in Analog Science Fiction magazine, Girls to the Rescue #7 (Meadowbrook Press, 2000), and Eat My Martian Dust (Baker, 2005). She has been a frequent contributor to Odyssey magazine.

Please visit Marianne's home page (www.MarianneDyson.com) to check for her latest publications, appearances, activities for kids, book reviews and recommendations. You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter.

Marianne Dyson's Home Page
Looking for an author to visit your school or speak at your conference? Marianne Dyson is an experienced and enthusiastic speaker who has appeared on C-SPAN2 and RIF. Details about her books, rates, and activities are on her website, plus hands-on activities for kids.

Science in Kids' Books
The Moon does not have a dark side, and there is gravity in space! A former NASA flight controller and children's author reviews children's space & science fiction books for accuracy.

Science Fiction Writing Acitivity
Individuals or groups act out space plots & write stories using data from former NASA Flight Controller Marianne Dyson.

Space Activities
Make a space drink, build scale models of the planets, a gravity detector, or play a "solar system" live game.