Your Mission to Venus eBook

by Christine Zuchora-Walske

Overview

It's time for your mission to Venus! Jump in your super speedy rocket to explore Venus's size, atmosphere, temperature, gravity, orbits, clouds, mountains, and craters. Basic solar system facts are brought to life with a focus on what questions scientists are still trying to solve. Each book ends with a section on how scientists discovered the facts that have been presented. Bright, colorful illustrations and straightforward text make this topic accessible for even the youngest astronomer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781616417444
Publisher:	ABDO Publishing
Publication date:	08/01/2011
Series:	Planets (MW) eBook
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB
Age Range:	4 - 10 Years

Editorial Reviews

Gr 2–3—Brief but well stocked with details, these titles invite readers to travel to a planet to explore both its surface and interior or, in the case of Earth, to observe from space. Aside from an awkwardly phrased line in Mercury about how steam "could have turned into liquid and froze into ice," the content is well presented both in main narratives and in closing summaries. Unfortunately, rather than space photos, or at least digital paintings to go with the planets' often tantalizingly described features, the illustrations are all flat, "Dora the Explorer" style cartoons of a multicultural cast of smiling young travelers and their pets zooming through space in retro spacecraft or posing in generic settings.

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