Our Solar System: All About Planets, Moons, Asteroids, Comets, and More! - Softcover

Simon, Seymour

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062333798 ISBN 13: 9780062333797

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 2014

Synopsis

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

About this title

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062333798
• ISBN 13: 9780062333797
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48