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How Come? Planet Earth

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I LOVED this book. It's not just for kids -- though I'm sure they'll enjoy it, as much as I did. The author's choice of subject matter is excellent, and she explores each subject at just the right depth. Her breezy and humorous writing style is a joy to read.

And it's educational, too! Although I have an advanced science degree, and have been a lifelong reader in various sciences, I found myself learning something new in each essay.

I strongly recommend "How Come? Planet Earth" to curious minds of any age.

...I bought How Come? Planet Earth for my Kids and I read an article every morning with my cereal. I love the kooky cartoons and the articles make me look like a genius to my kids! It will always come in handy to know that flys taste with their feet and humming birds have the most powerful muscles in the animal kingdom...MY ENTIRE FAMILY LOVES THIS BOOK!

This book is awesome. It is full of very interesting information about why things around us are the way they are. It has a section on the human body, one on animals, one on the earth itself, among others.
It is written with humor and wit. I learn (and laugh) a lot as I read to my child. It is so useful for him, too, satisfying his ingenious curiosity that is so precious of children. This is the BEST children's book I have come across so far and very highly recommend it.

My girls love this book. They got so excited about the facts the learned in this book. I even learned so new things. Fun for the entire family. We love it

I bought and loved the first How Come? book a few years ago (and then I bought copies for all my friends so they'd stop "borrowing" mine). So it was like Christmas morning when I discovered that there was a new How Come? book out.

This one is just as good as the first -- which means that it is fabulous. Each question is answered in a fascinating essay that explains, in easy to understand language, how our world actually works, from quicksand to why things itch. And each answer comes with a hilarious drawing. The publisher classifies this as a "young person's" book, but I have yet to meet an adult who could read one of these essays without wanting a copy of this book for themselves.

This book is a follow-up to the original How Come? book. The book is broken up into four main parts: questions about the earth, animals, the body, and how things are made. Each question is answered in just a few pages and includes cartoon pictures and fast facts. There is an index at the end of the book.

This is a great book to pick up and put down over and over. All questions were submitted by kids, which makes it appealing to young readers. The questions are common ones that kids are always asking, like why it looks like there is a man on the moon and why dogs bark. Now they can find the answers themselves! It is an easy reader and the pictures are really cute. Even older students would enjoy this book because it is long so it does not look like a children's book and it answers the types of questions that kids of all ages ask. This would be a nice book for a classroom where students could pick it up and look through it little by little.

I bought this book for my 5 year old girl who kept saying things like "Mom, I'm wondering... how did all the water get on our planet in the very beginning?" The answer was in there!!! And in terms that she could follow. Awesome book! The book is probably geared toward older kids but I guess it doesn't matter what age they are when those questions start coming :)