Our Solar System: Revised Edition - Softcover

Simon, Seymour

 
9780061140105: Our Solar System: Revised Edition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0061140104 ISBN 13: 9780061140105
Verlag: HarperCollins, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Join award-winning science writer
Seymour Simon in this completely updated edition of Our Solar System, as
he takes young readers on a fascinating tour through space! 

With beautiful full-color
photographs and spacecraft images, including many taken by the Mars rovers and
Hubble Space Telescope, this nonfiction picture book teaches young readers all about the solar system, including the sun, the
eight planets, and their moons. Covering all the latest discoveries in space,
young astronomers will be over the moon about the fun facts, fascinating
science, and incredible photographs. A must-have for every child interested in
outer space!  

This book includes an author's note, a glossary, an index,
and further reading suggestions.
An excellent choice for classrooms and homeschooling, Our Solar System supports
the Common Core State Standards.

Check out these other Seymour Simon
books about the universe and space:









  • Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids

  • Destination: Jupiter

  • Destination: Mars

  • Destination: Space

  • Exoplanets

  • Galaxies

  • Stars

  • The Sun

  • The Universe

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Seymour Simon has been called “the dean of the [children’s science book] field” by the New York Times. He has written more than 300 books for young readers and has received the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Lifetime Achievement Award for his lasting contribution to children’s science literature, the Science Books & Films Key Award for Excellence in Science Books, the Empire State Award for excellence in literature for young people, and the Educational Paperback Association Jeremiah Ludington Award. He and his wife, Liz, live in Columbia County in Upstate New York. You can visit him online at www.seymoursimon.com, where students can post on the “Seymour Science Blog” and educators can download a free four-page teacher guide to accompany this book, putting it in context with Common Core objectives. Join the growing legion of @seymoursimon fans on Twitter!

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Born almost 5 billion years ago at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, our Solar System is a place filled with mystery and wonder. In the last fifty years, we have learned more than ever about the farthest reaches of our world. With dramatic full-color photographs and spacecraft images, Our Solar System takes young readers on a fascinating tour of the sun, the eight planets and their moons, plus asteroids and comets. Award-winning science writer Seymour Simon presents this new, updated edition of his much-admired book about the vast and mystifying part of the universe that we live in.

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Verlag
HarperCollins
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0061140104
ISBN 13 
9780061140105
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
48
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