The Universe - Softcover

Simon, Seymour

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064437523 ISBN 13: 9780064437523

Publisher: HarperTrophy, 2000

Synopsis

Take a thrilling voyage through space! Did you know that...

The Sun was formed 4 1/2 billion years ago from a swirling disk of dust, ice, and gas.

The universe is expanding- galaxies speed away from one another at thousands of miles per second.

There are more stars in this universe than grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches.

Matter sucked into a black hole will never return or be seen again.

Explore the mystery and beauty that is the universe!

About this title

About the Author:

Seymour Simon is the author of over one hundred science books for children. His many award-winning books include Icebergs and Glaciers, a New York Academy of Sciences Children's Book Award winner, as well as Storms, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Mountains, and many books about the solar system. Mr. Simon is the recipient of the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Award for Nonfiction for the body of his work. He lives in Great Neck, New York.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-6ASimon offers what amounts to an introduction to his long running, literally and figuratively stellar series of photo-essays on matters astronomical. Matching full-color, full- and double-page-spread-sized light and radio photographs of nebulas, galaxies, and sundry deep-space phenomena with two or three paragraphs of explanatory text, he covers a wide range of topics, from the Big Bang to quasars, from star formation to extrasolar planets. Care has been taken to keep the pictures and related text close together, and the choice of detail is guaranteed to whet youngster's appetites for a more thorough, narrowly focused treatment. Asking some of the Big QuestionsA"Does life exist on earth-like planets in distant solar systems? Will the universe expand forever or finally stop and then collapse into a gigantic black hole?"ASimon writes that "we are just at the beginning of a golden age of discovery." This book, along with the others that it leads to, will give children the solid background they will need to understandAand perhaps even participate inAthose discoveries.AJohn Peters, New York Public Library
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperTrophy
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0064437523
• ISBN 13: 9780064437523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32