Solar System Forecast (Arbordale Collection) - Softcover

Kelly Kizer Whitt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607185326 ISBN 13: 9781607185321

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Below-freezing temperatures, scorching heat, and storms bigger than planet Earth are just some of the wild weather you will encounter on your trip through the solar system! Get your fun facts along with your forecast for each major planet, as well as a moon (Titan) and a dwarf planet (Pluto). Get ready for some out of this world fun with Solar System Forecast!

About this title

About the Author

Award-winning author Marianne Berkes (Daisylocks) is a retired teacher and librarian who turned her love of nature and teaching into writing informational picture books. In addition to Anybody Home?, The Tree That Bear Climbed and the award-winning Animalogy for Arbordale, some of Marianne's other recent and award-winning titles include: Going Home, The Mystery of Animal Migration; Over in the Ocean, in a Coral Reef; Over in the Jungle, a Rainforest Rhyme; Going Around the Sun, Some Planetary Fun, What's in the Garden?, and The Swamp Where Gator Hides.

Laurie Allen Klein has been a freelance artist for nearly 25 years. Over the last several years, she has worked as the on-staff artist for a marine park, where she does everything from painting life-size sea animal murals to illustrating children's activity books. In addition to Saving Kate's Flowers, They Just Know, Laurie has illustrated The Ghost of Donley Farm, Fur and Feathers, Where Should Turtle Be?, Little Skink's Tail, Solar System Forecast, Meet the Planets, If a Dolphin Were a Fish and Balloon Trees for Arbordale. She was the winner of the Outstanding Pennsylvania Author/Illustrator Award from the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association in 2008 and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Laurie lives in Florida.

Reviews

Gr 3-4-Describing planetary conditions using a familiar weather-report format, this narrative romps its way through the solar system. Starting with the Sun-"active today, with dark sunspots scattered across the surface like polka dots"-the reports cover conditions on each planet and their effect on science-fiction travelers and commuters. Earth is decsribed as "the Goldilocks planet: not too hot, not too cold, its nitrogen and oxygen atmosphere-based climate is just right!" The illustrations amplify the humorous text-one year on Uranus lasts 84 Earth years, and its seasons change about every 21 of our years. The calendar on the bulletin board shows the years 2007 through 2027 crossed off for Spring Break. A Morton Salt-like girl with umbrella and dog illustrates the 100 percent chance of methane-rain on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Every page is fun to read, and every illustration invites readers in for a close examination, especially the grinning green weather guy. The "For Creative Minds" section summarizes and compares scientific data about each planet in a more down-to-earth, serious tone. Fun and informative.-Frances E. Millhouser, formerly at Chantilly Regional Library, Fairfax County, VAα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1607185326
• ISBN 13: 9781607185321
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Laurie Allen Klein
• Number of pages: 32