The title is appropriate, a good summary of its contents. Excellent, read, reread, for all ages from 14 years before, it can provide support to answer questions children. A wonder to learn the basics of the mysteries of the universe, with a beautiful teaching as intended among other things to be read to younger. A chance for children to have such a grandfather, a chance for all readers benefit from his generosity in how to communicate, to share his knowledge. Generosity that is also found in the works of the great botanist, humanist Jean-Marie Pelt that tells of life on earth, the complexity of interactions between living species, plant, animal. I return to this book "the universe explained to my grandchildren" it is the second that I buy, this time to offer it to a friend whose little son, like many children, very curious about everything he observes ask questions that do not always have the answers. Bits of this reading the night before sleep have a soothing effect on sleep, it's at least what I noticed about me, because it makes us dream in raising us? This book can awaken the desire to observe the night sky in all seasons, provided they are in a place where little light pollution permit. After the curiosity comes the pleasure to recognize the easiest galaxies to see, as we recognize the names of flowers while walking in a meadow, but this is not the subject of this book, it is more general. A dream time is often a good preamble to entry in the nightly rest.