Space (Curious Kids Guides) [Hardcover]

Carole Stott (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2002 | Age Level: 4 and up | Series: Curious Kids Guides

Curious Kids Guides: Space answers questions such as - How hot is the sun?, What is a black hole? And Are stars star-shaped? in an easy-to-understand way.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Excellent page design and text help make information accessible. (Boston Sunday Herald) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Carole Stott has written more than twenty books on astronomy and space and is a feature writer for the U.K. magazine Astronomy Now. Carole authored Kingfisher Knowledge: Stars and Planets, I Wonder Why Stars Twinkle and Other Questions About Space, and Astronomy, and she was a chapter contributor to The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia. Before turning to full-time writing, she was curator and then the head of the observatory at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Kingfisher (April 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0753454688
• ISBN-13: 978-0753454688
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,585,931 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating facts and interesting pictures for curious kids, April 10, 2005

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Eileen Palsson (Sollentuna Sweden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eye Wonder: Space (Eye Wonder) (Hardcover)

As soon as we opened this book, my inquisitive 5-year-old was hooked. It is filled with interesting facts about our solar system, written on a level just perfect for ages 4-8 (the target age group for these books). The pictures and graphics are rich and colorful. I bought "Ocean", too, and now we often read these books instead of good-night stories. Each 2-page spread contains so much to see and discuss that it takes the place of a standard good-night story.
Here's an example: "A planet's year is the time it takes to make one full journey (orbit) around the Sun.... Planets with the biggest orbits have the longest years." For a kid who is just beginning to comprehend how long a year is, it's interesting to toy with the idea that a "year" is a different amount of time on each planet. Ok, it's a stretch, and I don't think my 5-year-old really understood, but that's just one example of the types of things we sit and talk about after looking at this book. Fun!
So if your child is curious about the sun, moon and planets, I would really recommend this book. (Even for older kids, frankly. My mother and I both enjoy it and learned from it. And it's much more interesting to read and look at than a typical story book.)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Starter, December 15, 2008

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sk94 (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Eye Wonder: Space (Eye Wonder) (Hardcover)

I purchased this book for a four year old boy and he loved it. The pictures are excellent and the descriptions are brief and accurate (enough for a four year old). This is a great supplement book for the price. Yes, there are better space books out there.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My son loves it, June 10, 2009

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Becky - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Eye Wonder: Space (Eye Wonder) (Hardcover)

My son loves anything to do about space and that includes this book whichhe loves to show his cousins... Thanks