ASTROKIDS INAF: A Nationwide Experience of Communicating Astronomy with Kids

Following the positive experience started in 2009 by the Palermo Observatory (INAF - OAPa), since 2011 the Italian National Institute for Astronomy (INAF) has been carrying on Astrokids as a nationwide project to communicate astronomy with kids, in an informal context, such as the one of bookshops. Thus the INAF entered into an agreement with a well known bookstore chain and started the Astrokids experience in nine different cities, using traditional and innovative methodologies and many opportunities offered by the ITC. Many Astrokids are at disposal on the web (at the moment in Italian) and are very used by teachers and families. The Astrokids experience is going to be published on a book, whose authors are astronomers and researchers of the INAF.