The Miracle Planet

by Bruce Brown

Beginning with the formation of the solar system, this volume attempts to unravel the mysteries of the Earth and augurs the future

Genres: Reference

257 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[serprex]

First book I read not including 5 page learn-to-read stuff. So I'm going actually start at 1998. I'm in 1st grade. We have reading buddies who are in 3rd grade. They have us read simple sentence books about "The cat goes through the garden to the hat". 2nd grade I'm doing alright in memorizing words for weekly dictées but I'm still not reading books. 3rd grade comes along & I'm still grabbing books we were reading in 1st grade for reading period (they're in that classroom for reading with 1st grade reading buddies, see). Parent teacher meeting day happens where the teacher will be able to meet my father & say "You must be Philip's father". While waiting around because there are more parents than teacher, my father points at this book & jokes "You should read this". I then spend the next many monthes reading this at reading time, probably looking at the pictures mostly, but going page by page. Friend in class notices I'm taking a liking to this book so we end up fighting over it. After finally getting through it, I began reading books

So that's a long spiel that has nothing to do with this book. I don't remember anything about it besides there being a chapter named "Little Green Men". But I'd attribute it as being a good catalyst for someone who was likely to be labelled "learning impaired"

[Camille Church · Rating 5 out of 5]

To the point and sparks my amazement of scientific aspects of the earth and life. Lots of cool pictures.

[Chris Brimmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Skimpy on text, the photography more than makes up for it. The pictures are spectacular.