Children's Nonfiction Astronomy
Discover the Planets
- Publisher
- Kids Can Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2005
- Category
- Astronomy
- Recommended Age
- 6 to 8
- Recommended Grade
- 1 to 3
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781553378266
- Publish Date
- Aug 2005
- List Price
- $5.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781553378259
- Publish Date
- Aug 2005
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Discover the Planets begins by discussing our solar system and goes on to explain what planets are, why they are so bright in the night sky and how they orbit around the sun. Longer, more complex stories and sentences, more challenging vocabulary, language play and minimal repetition make this a Level 3 first reader.
About the authors
Cynthia Pratt Nicolson is a teacher and an award-winning children’s author who has written several non-fiction books, including The Stars and The Planets. She lives on Bowen Island, British Columbia.
Cynthia Pratt Nicolson's profile page
Multiple award winning illustrator Bill Slavin was born in Belleville, Ontario. His work includes the acclaimed 'Stanley's Party' written by Linda Bailey, 'Who Broke the teapot!' as well as more than 100 award winning children's books.
Among his many honours, Bill has won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, the Blue Spruce Award, the California Young Reader Medal and the Zena Sutherland Award for Children's Literature. Recently, he has returned to his childhood love of comics and graphic novels, writing and illustrating the graphic novel trilogy Elephants Never Forget, as now the Mordecai Crow trilogy. Quid Pro Crow is Bil's second book with Renegade Arts Entertainment.
Librarian Reviews
Discover the Planets
Kids Can Press has been publishing books about science since the early 1980s. It has combined two of its great science books with its burgeoning Kids Can Read series of beginner readers to produce these two new titles about outer space. Each book is an adaptation of an earlier title, Exploring Space and The Planets, re-written to conform to Level 3: Kids Can Read Alone in their early reading series. Exploring Space and The Planets were fun and informative, and these simpler versions are successful in retaining the charm and interest of the originals. Each book includes basic information, simply and effectively presented. The writing is informative and fluid even with the limited text and vocabulary. Discover Space covers the solar system, galaxy, space travel, moon exploration and exploring outside of our solar system. Discover the Planets has a chapter on each of the planets, including Earth, and a general description of the solar system. There are lots of colour and black and white photographs along with Bill Slavin’s cheerful illustrations. Both titles are nicely designed in the traditional easy-to-read format. Each book includes a table of contents.Source: The Canadian Children's Bookcentre. Winter 2006. Vol.29 No. 1.
Discover the Planets (Kids Can Read Level 3)
Kids can learn about our solar system, what planets are, why they are so bright in the night sky and how they orbit around the sun.Source: The Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Canadian Children’s Book News. 2006.
