Astronomy: Out of This World!

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School Library JournalBasher has created a portrait gallery of personified ... celestial bodies in a hyper-cute, pastel cartoon style reminiscent of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami’s more extravagant flights. . . . Green’s astro-narrative is both accurate and spiced with seldom-mentioned details, ... it could kindle (or in under motivated older readers, rekindle) interest in the topic. And it’s fun!
VOYA - Dawn Talbott
Green's book on astronomy seems at first glance more like a Japanese-inspired comic book than a reference book, but its appearance is one of the reasons that it will make a great addition to any library. Color coding and icons guide readers through each chapter. The illustrations are bright and bold, adorning nearly every page. In addition to the great use of color, the illustrations are unique and interesting, featuring characters that will make readers smile. Overall the book is eye catching and vibrant, enabling it to hold the attention of readers at nearly every age level. The text is written in a modern tone that is both playful and educational. Each topic features bulleted items as well as a few conversationally written paragraphs that educate and entertain. With all its glitz, it is important to remember that the book is a reference work, but it does a good job in a package that is both visually appealing and engaging while still communicating information. The only fault might lie in the fact that the entire book is an exercise in personification, both in the drawings and text, as each object studied is a character and the content is often shared from its point of view using first-person narratives. This small infraction can be overlooked, however, because of the selection's ability to give readers that feeling of not wanting to put the book down, a rare treat in nonfiction. Reviewer: Dawn Talbott
School Library Journal
Gr 4–8—Employing the same illustrative style used in Adrian Dingle's The Periodic Table: Elements with Style! (Kingfisher, 2007), Basher has created a portrait gallery of personified planets, comets, space probes, galaxies, several kinds of stars, and an array of other celestial bodies in a hyper-cute, pastel cartoon style reminiscent of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami's more extravagant flights. Along with short bulleted lists of additional information, each figure offers a fact-based self-description, from the Sun's exuberant "I'm a total star—the center of everything, baby! A fearsome fireball burning 600 million tons of hydrogen every second" to snotty Space-time's "Because you're used to seeing in only three dimensions, you cannot even imagine what I look like." Though the closest star to the sun is misidentified as a "brown dwarf" (it is actually Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf, which is correctly categorized on a later page), Green's astro-narrative is both accurate and spiced with seldom-mentioned details, such as Pluto's three moons and Saturn's weirdly hexagonal polar cloud. This won't replace more conventionally written and illustrated surveys, but it could kindle (or in undermotivated older readers, rekindle) interest in the topic. And it's fun!—John Peters, New York Public Library
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780753462904
  • Publisher: Kingfisher
  • Publication date: 5/12/2009
  • Series: Basher Science Series
  • Pages: 128
  • Sales rank: 122,055
  • Age range: 10 - 15 Years
  • Product dimensions: 6.80 (w) x 6.90 (h) x 0.50 (d)

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  • Posted July 6, 2009

    I Also Recommend:

    Biology
    The Periodic Table: Elements with Style!
    Basher Science: Physics: Why Matter Matters!

    A new addition to a great series

    "Astronomy" is the fourth in a wonderful series of educational books that explore the components of the Period Table, Physics, and Biology with concise, clear and humorous explanations. Unique and beautifully stylized illustrations bring these elements and ideas
    to life by turning them into characters that embody their "personality." These books have enchanted my ten year old daughter who now wishes to become a scientist. We eagerly await the next book, "Rocks and Minerals."

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  • Posted February 20, 2010

    I Also Recommend:

    Biology
    Basher Science: Physics: Why Matter Matters!
    Basher Science: Rocks and Minerals: A Gem of a Book

    One of the best science books for elementary kids!

    Great learning/teaching tool. Most kids love cartoons ... this series is great because my kids love the illustrations, and love learning what the illustrations are about. Ultimately, this book serves two purposes beautifully, it entertains and instructs. One by one we are collecting the entire series.

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