Our Solar System (Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe)

Isaac-asimov

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ISBN 10: 1555323618 ISBN 13: 9781555323615

Publisher: Gareth Stevens, 1988

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ea. vol: 32p. diags. illus. photogs. bibliog. glossary. index. (Library of the Universe Series). CIP. Gareth Stevens. 1988. PLB $9.95. Grade 2-4 These four series books are lavishly illustrated in color and written in a breezy style that might be suitable for introducing astronomy to young readers. However, many basic terms are used without definitions, and many illustrations are confusing. The exclamation point-laden text usually occupies half a page or less per spread. Occasionally paragraphs of ``amazing facts'' are enclosed in a box. Each book ends with a Fact File summation of the book, a bibliography, suggested places to visit or write for more information, an abbreviated glossary, and an index. Asteroids introduces the asteroid belt but omits basic definitions for gravity and mass. It mentions the asteroids which have hit the earth, and that the Leonid meteor shower occurs every year, but reveals nothing about the size of an asteroid which can damage the earth or when the Leonid shower occurs. Quasars, Pulsars and Black Holes provides good basic definitions of these phenomena but neglects such basics as gravitational pull and matter. The Orion Nebula is illustrated as an example of a spectacular cloud of gases, and readers are invited to see it for themselves some night , but without any chart for locating the constellation in the night sky. Our Milky Way and Other Galaxies and Our Solar System suffer from the same deficienciesbeautiful yet often confusing drawings and introduction of terms such as solar wind and blue giant star without enough explanation. Comets are described as dropping toward the sun sometimes, with no description of their long orbits around the sun. Mysteries of the Satellites (Lodestar, 1986) by Franklyn M. Branley, Stars and Galaxies (Watts, 1982; o.p.) by Necia H. Apfel, and The Long View into Space (Crown, 1979) by Seymour Simon are just a few of the fine astronomy books which offer clear texts, definitions , and illustrations and a sound foundation of many complicated astronomical concepts. Frances E. Millhouser, Arlington County Dept . of Libraries, Va.
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