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Our Stars
Scientists use telescopes and satellites to study the stars. But even though they're far away, stars are part of your world, too! Just lift up your eyes to see.
Anne Rockwell explains the universe with bright pictures and simple text in a book that will delight any curious child's mind!
Anne Rockwell explains the universe with bright pictures and simple text in a book that will delight any curious child's mind!
Paperback, 24 pages
Published
April 1st 2002
by Sandpiper
(first published 1999)
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This simple picture book describes stars, planets, comets, meteors, and other celestial phenomena with brightly colored illustrations and short sentences. The illustrations depicting children looking at the heavens are charming, but the depictions of stars, planets, and the solar system are hopelessly over-simplified to the point of inaccuracy. The author describes complicated astronomy concepts in simple language that will confuse young readers, such as “Some stars are so far away that their fi...more
Grade: 2nd
Need a book to introduce your students to stars and anything that relates to outer space and our Earth? Choose this book. It will help your students understand about how the world revolves and why the stars are more important as they seem. This would be a great addition to the science portion of your classroom library.
Need a book to introduce your students to stars and anything that relates to outer space and our Earth? Choose this book. It will help your students understand about how the world revolves and why the stars are more important as they seem. This would be a great addition to the science portion of your classroom library.
This book is a simple introduction to the stars, sun, and planets. The students could use this book to find out about the sun our largest star. They could investigate facts about the sun and do a report using the format The Most Important Thing about the sun is...
This book is an easy read and it's a great way to introduce stars, planets, comets and meteors. The students will enjoy this book because it's full of color.
Simple but concise introduction to the solar system for younger readers, though it is older and still calls Pluto a planet.
a great, informative book for kids about the stars and other basic astronomy. it really made j start thinking about astronomy.
I really enjoy this author. I liked the way she explained our solar system in this book. Great illustrations!!!
May 17, 2013
Emily
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it was good i learned a lot from this book mostly about the big dipper
My 5-yr-old twins thought that this book was great.
On the suggested summer reading list for students.
May 09, 2013
Nevaeh
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it is a good book
EL Skills - Print motivation, letter knowledge, & narrative skills. Activities - Read, talk, & dream. And knowledge of the world around us and even things out of this world! Quick, come here outside, lay on your back in the driveway, the walkway, or on the grass and just look at those stars!
H-bomb has been asking a lot about stars ("not planets--STARS") so I picked up a couple of "for kids" astronomy books from the library for him. This was one of them.
It was... OK. You can do the read-aloud in about 5-10 minutes and it's pretty no-nonsense. Not much in the way of hard science, but enough for a three-year-old, and enough not to enrage the empirically-leaning parent.
It was... OK. You can do the read-aloud in about 5-10 minutes and it's pretty no-nonsense. Not much in the way of hard science, but enough for a three-year-old, and enough not to enrage the empirically-leaning parent.
Read at family story time on 4/25/11.
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