Ten Worlds: Everything that Orbits the Sun - Hardcover

Ken Croswell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590785312 ISBN 13: 9781590785317

Publisher: Boyds Mills Press, 2007

Synopsis

Revised to Expand on the Pluto Controversy. To give young readers the science behind the headlines, astronomer Ken Croswell has expanded on his acclaimed Ten Worlds—a Society of School Librarians International Honor Book and the most substantial and beautiful children\u2019s book about the solar system.

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About the Author:

Ken Croswell earned a PhD in astronomy at Harvard University and wrote several critically acclaimed books. He has written for Star Date radio program, the New York Times, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, and New Scientist. He lives in Berkeley, California.

From Booklist:

Gr. 4-6. Author-astronomer Croswell, who has written extensively on space topics for adults, follows his children's-book debut, See the Stars (2000), with a striking, large-format overview of the solar system. In topical spreads illustrated with luminous, digitally retouched images, many taken on NASA missions, each of the 10 planets orbiting our sun (the still-controversial tenth is an unnamed space object discovered in 2005) is considered in turn. Other entries cover the asteroid belt, meteors, and the birth of the solar system. Croswell's inconsistent writing is disappointing. For every lucid formulation, such as the description of an asteroid as a "leftover building block of a planet like Earth," there are instances of too-casual language ("What's really neat is [Mars'] color"), and the text-heavy appearance of many pages may put off less confident readers. However, the up-to-date information and majestic high-tech visuals on glossy black pages will give Seymour Simon's Our Solar System (1992) a run for its money. Appended tables of facts and figures provide additional fodder for the space obsessed. Jennifer Mattson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1590785312
• ISBN 13: 9781590785317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 56