George's Secret Key to the Universe

By: Stephen Hawking, Lucy Hawking

Narrated by: Hugh Dancy

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 selection of Al's Book Club on the Today show.©2007 Lucy Hawking; (P)2007 Simon and Schuster Inc.

Enjoyable for the whole family

Completely captured our whole family's attention including (8 yr old boy, 9 yr old girl, Mom & Dad.) And while it was a great story it also effectively taught about the universe.

The reader was not so good

In the first and second book, the reader was AMAZING and ind in this book, the reader was BAD

Fun and educational children's book!

This book seems geared for grammar school kids through young teens and the authors manage very well to make really complex scientific concepts accessible even to very young readers. The language is simple, and the characters easy to relate to. As an adult, I thought the story was cute and very educational. I enjoy reading physics written for a general audience. It's great that Stephen Hawking, as one of the most brilliant physicists ever, has made his work so accessible to general audiences and now, with the help of his daughter, to children. I think this would be a fantastic book to listen to on a road trip with kids, especially if you were on your way to an observatory or planetarium. It has some good messages to kids and parents. The narration is polished and portrays the characters and action well. Dr. Hawking discusses the more technical aspects of the science at the end himself, which is a nice bonus.

The last chapter is the best!

it's a charming kids story, but the last chapter is classic Stephen Harkins—his computer voice telling you about the basics of astronomy

AWESOME

Iloveditsomuchthenarratirwasamazing.itstartedwhenIneededtodoaschoolproject.Igotitonaudibleand it was amazing. so cool. so awesome. so amazing. it added facts in there2