Our Solar System

by American Museum of Natural History, Connie Roop, Peter Roop

Overview

The youngest astronomers can go forth and journey into outer space in this fun, basic introduction to the solar system. The unique format presents our sun and each planet in order with graduated flaps—turn each flap to reveal fascinating facts on each celestial body, and even the Milky Way!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454914181
Publisher:	Sterling Children's Books
Publication date:	06/14/2016
Series:	Science for Toddlers Series , #1
Pages:	26
Sales rank:	128,623
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 6.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	AD490L (what's this?)
Age Range:	9 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Peter and Connie Roop are award-winning authors of over 100 children’s books. Their popular books, over three million sold, are for readers K­–8 including history, biography, science, nature, humor, and historical fiction.
 
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City is one of the largest and most respected museums in the world. Since the Museum was founded in 1869, its collections have grown to include more than 33 million specimens and artifacts relating to the natural world and human cultures. The Museum showcases its collections in the exhibit halls and, behind the scenes, more than 200 scientists carry out cutting-edge research. It is also home to the Hayden Planetarium, which enjoys a proud legacy that has blended scientific scholarship with innovative public outreach for much of the past century. Approximately five million people from around the world visit the Museum each year. Plan a trip to the Museum, home of the world's largest collection of dinosaur fossils, or visit online at amnh.org.

Editorial Reviews

2016-06-22
An inventively designed board book introduces the solar system to the youngest learners."Our solar system has eight planets," begins the book, which presents stock photos of the sun and each planet in turn, with a fact or two about each. With the turn of the page, readers see the sun at the center of the double-page spread, the edge of the recto rounded at the leading edge of the sun's surface. Each subsequent recto is similarly shaped, with an extra bulge where each planet's photo is printed, and extends a little further out, creating an overlapping effect that evokes the planets' orbits. It looks impressive, but in execution it falls short in clarity, since the facts associated with each body are printed on the other side of the page. Readers see that the "Sun is a giant ball of hot gas" opposite the photo of and label for Mercury. The planets' photos are printed on both sides, but their relative sizes can cause confusion. "The rocks on the surface of Mars look red," reads the text next to the diminutive picture of Mars, but the spread is dominated by Jupiter, also reddish, on the right. The facts presented vary in developmental appropriateness; will the board-book audience really understand such statements as "Gas giant planets do not have a solid surface"? Flashy but ultimately poorly conceived. (Informational board book. 3-5)

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