“Follow your dreams, study hard, and someday you’ll live in a world as wonderful as the one we imagine in my books.” Scientist and author Jeffrey Bennett has not been to the moon—yet. He hopes eventually to teach at the University of the Moon, where Girl Scouts will be among the students and their families […]
Two books with ties to CU win Colorado Book Awards Todd Neff’s “From Jars to Stars,” and Jeff Bennett’s “Math for Life,” two books with ties to the University of Colorado Boulder, were awarded a Colorado Book Award in Aspen this summer in the history and general nonfiction categories, respectively. Winning this honor “provides some […]
“The Wizard Who Saved the World” – Coming Soon to an Elementary School Near You! Thanks to the generous donation of author, Dr. Jeffrey Bennett, and the distribution efforts of the Jared Polis Foundation and the Colorado PTA, “The Wizard Who Saved the World”, children’s book, will soon be arriving at the 1,050 elementary schools […]
Download the formatted article from Astrobeat Magazine (PDF) Editor’s Introduction To those of us who teach astronomy, Dr. Bennett is known as the lead author of one of the most popular introductory astronomy textbooks in the U.S. He also writes textbooks in other fields and popular books for adults. Less well known is the fact […]
A local literacy program announced its spring book selection today for Waco’s youth. One Book, One Waco is blasting off their largest campaign ever with their spring read The Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam for middle school through college students. Younger readers can enjoy Max Goes to Jupiter by Jeffrey Bennett. Space-X is one of […]
Colorado Parent – January, 2009 A dog in space? Sure, why not. In Max Goes to Jupiter, the newest book from the award-winning Max Adventure series, Boulder author, astrophysicist and father of two, Jeffrey Bennett, sends feisty Max, a 100-pound Rottweiler into the solar system. What started out as a story Bennett told his son […]
The Daily Camera – December 24, 2008 Author: Laura Snider After helping to set up a colony on the moon and galloping across the red sands of Mars, Max the rottweiler died. Now his grandson (whose real name is Cosmo, but who goes by Max anyway) is continuing the rottweilers-in-space legacy, this time with a […]
The Daily Camera Author: Todd Neff – Camera Staff Writer The John Grisham of astronomy textbooks lives in north Boulder. Jeffrey Bennett, a University of Colorado-trained astrophysicist and longtime instructor there, is known locally for his children’s books “Max Goes to the Moon” and “Max Goes to Mars.” But these well-regarded, Rottweiler-centric efforts were sidelights […]
The Daily Camera – September 28, 2004 Author: Mary Butler – Camera Staff Writer Jeffrey Bennett once dreamed of becoming an astronaut like Neil Armstrong and the others who flew the famous Apollo missions that landed on the moon six times between his 10th and 13th birthdays. The 45-year-old Boulder astrophysicist, teacher and author never […]
Women’s Magazine – February 2004 By Marcey J. Cote Some might expect an astronomer to have his eyes locked on the sky or his head in the clouds, but Jeffrey Bennett defies these stereotypes. While the local astronomer/writer uses his academic background to drive his personal mission, he keeps his ideas firmly grounded. His ideas […]
