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What Is the Moon?
How far away is the Moon? How much would you weigh on the Moon? Have people visited the Moon? This easy-to-read book is full of beautiful color photographs and fascinating facts. Supporting the National Science Education Standards for K–4 Earth and Space Science, along with filling the need for informational text in the classroom, this volume will fascinate and educate the youngest readers. Fun facts and a career page help round out this book for elementary readers.
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Mystery, surprise, weirdness, or beauty is often required to fascinate a young child. Some of these qualities are found throughout the books in the I Like Space! series. All of the volumes ask questions most children might have about Earth, the moon, or the sun. They give simple answers and roughly define useful words, although not without errors. (One claim is that energy is "light and heat" another says asteroids are "rocks from space," and some words have conflicting pronunciation hints.) On many pages, there's a "fun fact." One correctly says that the Earth looks blue from space, but then states the widely held, but mistaken, view that this effect is due to water (rather than to atmospheric Rayleigh scattering). In addition, the moon's dark maria are attributed to lava from volcanoes instead of from major impact events.
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