Destination: Space

Destination: Space
Seumour Simon
Collins, 2006
Pages: 32
Reading Level: 4-8
Genre: Non-Fiction

The Hubble Space telescope has been orbiting the earth since April 1990, and has been taking many wonderful picture. This book uses those pictures to teach us about many things in space, including mars, Jupiter, star clusters, supernovas, nebulas, cometary knots, and many more. Mars has a spring, summer, fall and winter just like us. In the spring in the northern hemispere, the north polar cap which is dry ice rapidly disappears. Jupitars beautiful rings are made up of ice, and it has "northern lights" just like earth. Supernova's are exploding stars that give off enourmous amounts of light and energy, and then flicker out and die. Nebulas are where stars are born. They are great big clouds of hydrogen gas and dust. The pictures in this book help to understand what each of these do and look like.

I would recommend that an elementary school teacher or science teacher read this book to their students. It is a great way to learn about space.

I can't think of any problems or conficts this book could cause.

My reaction: This book is a wonderful way for children to learn about space. The pictures are beautiful and informative.

My rating: ***