You Can Jump Higher on the Moon: And Other Amazing Facts About Space Exploration

I Didn't Know That...

by Kate Petty

An informative, fact-filled introduction to space and space exploration for young readers combines scientific concepts with hands-on activities, puzzles, games, quizzes, and projects that help youngsters study the moon and the planets of the solar system.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

Kate Petty was a British children's author and former editor whose engaging nonfiction books combined education with interactive pop-ups and movable features. Best known for The Great Grammar Book, she wrote nearly 100 titles, inspiring young readers through accessible learning.

Reviews

[Albana Bregu · Rating 3 out of 5]

It includes remarkable photographs, it uses captions and glossary to deepen the understanding of pupils about non-fiction facts and unfamiliar vocabulary, contents and index pages to find particular facts in the book, colours to make it stimulating, and headings to organise the text.

[Abigail Trithart · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely love this book!

This book explores different facts about space. Each page is dedicated to teaching children something very interesting about space! My favorite spread in the book discussed satellites and how they were powered by the sun. The illustrations are very intriguing and they mix realism with cartoon drawings. Each page also includes either a true/false question or a project for the students to try! On my favorite page, there is a project where a student attaches a ball to a piece of string and spins it around to help demonstrate the pull of gravity.

This would be the perfect book to help introduce students to the topic of space. The book is filled with facts that will make them grow curious to know more! I would love to read a page a day as we navigate throughout the space unit and we could use the project on that page to make it engaging for students!

[Rachel Banks · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really cute book that gives information about astronauts and space in a way that would be understandable by children in younger grades. There are many facts inside, such as how fast a rocket goes when leaving earth, and how much you weigh on the moon versus how much you weigh on earth. A good way to use this book in your class would be to suggest it to a kid who was really interested in space facts. You could also use this in your classroom for a space unit, picking facts out of it and letting students read more into it to learn what some of the vocabulary means and what the object the word is describing actually looks like.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

1099th - 2011