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In The Red Pyramid (rev...
Meet the Planets
Gr 2—4—Amusingly framed as a cheesy popularity contest, this parade of personified planets features illustrations in which rotund, recognizably marked caricatures of these heavenly bodies pose and mug, surrounded by an entourage of relevant though unidentified scientists, space probes, satellites both natural and artificial, books, constellations, and astronomical symbols...
Exploration Sky Watch
Gr 3—4—The texts in these quick once-overs are at times compressed to the point of incoherence...
Black Holes Constellations Eclipses NASA
Gr 2—3—These volumes offer short, simply phrased introductions to topics in astronomy enhanced by generous quantities of fairly high-quality space photography and art...
Jupiter Saturn Uranus Venus
Gr 1—3—Aside from the use of boilerplate in both texts and illustrations, these titles offer a serviceable combination of colorful photos and art matched to a substantial but not overwhelming blend of general statements and specific facts...
Costa Rica Greece Haiti Kenya Afghanistan Iraq Iran Pakistan Denmark Switzerland
Gr 2—3—These profiles offer healthy but easily digestible doses of specific information about each country's major geographical features, wildlife, human populations, schools, festivals, and characteristic foods in a colorful, visually appealing format...
13 Planets
Gr 4—6—Including remote Eris, Haumea, and Makemake in his count of major and dwarf planets, Aguilar tours the solar system from the Sun out to the Oort Cloud, highlighting such relatively recent discoveries as Saturn's "dark ring" and closing with a quick note about extrasolar planets...
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