Meet the Planets
Meet the Planets
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Arbordale Publishing
Annotation: Presents an introduction to the Solar System and the physical features of the eight planets that revolve around the Sun, in a text that includes learning activities.
 
Reviews: 2
Catalog Number: #5087050
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Copyright Date: 2011
Edition Date: 2012 Release Date: 02/10/11
Illustrator: Klein, Laurie Allen,
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: 1-607-18123-1
ISBN 13: 978-1-607-18123-1
Dewey: 523.4
LCCN: 2010049632
Dimensions: 26 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
Horn Book (Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2012)

The eight planets in the solar system are introduced through a gimmicky beauty-pageant-type "Favorite Planet Competition." A creepy anthropomorphized planet trots across each double-page spread, announcing random (and sometimes in poor taste) facts; Venus: "She's bright, she's beautiful, and she's smoking hot." The illustrations try, but there are a lot of similarities among the smiley-faced space bodies.

School Library Journal (Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 CDT 2011)

Gr 2-4 Amusingly framed as a cheesy popularity contest, this parade of personified planets features illustrations in which rotund, recognizably marked caricatures of these heavenly bodies pose and mug, surrounded by an entourage of relevant though unidentified scientists, space probes, satellites both natural and artificial, books, constellations, and astronomical symbols. After introducing the contestants one by one, ex-planet emcee Pluto invites viewers to choose the winner: Venus, perhaps? "She's bright, she's beautiful, and she's smoking hot." Or "massive, gassive Jupiter"? For young judges who prefer to make decisions by the numbers, the final three spreads are packed with charts, physical facts, and quizzes, all of which are supplemented by much more of the same in a dedicated area of the publisher's website. Though the only visual key to each spread is buried in the massive online teacher's guide where few young readers will find it on their own, and a claim in one quiz that "life as we know it" could not survive the temperatures on other planets is incorrect, the breezy, unconventional approach makes this a promisingly engaging way to introduce, or re-introduce, our celestial neighbors. John Peters, formerly at New York Public Library

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Horn Book (Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2012)
School Library Journal (Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 CDT 2011)
Word Count: 611
Reading Level: 4.2
Interest Level: 1-4
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.2 / points: 0.5 / quiz: 143364 / grade: Lower Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:3.6 / points:1.0 / quiz:Q53435
Lexile: AD630L
Guided Reading Level: O
Fountas & Pinnell: O

Soar into the Solar System to witness the first Favorite Planet Competition, emceed by none other than the former-ninth planet, now known as dwarf planet Pluto. The readers become the judges after the sun can't pick a favorite and the meteors leave for a shower. Who will the lucky winning planet be? Could it be speedy-messenger Mercury, light-on-his-feet Saturn, or smoking-hot Venus? Readers learn all about each planet as Pluto announces them with short, tongue-in-cheek facts. Children will spend hours searching the art for all the references to famous scientists and people of history, space technology, constellations, art, and classic literature. This fictional story includes a 6-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 56-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Meet the Planets is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs. The interactive ebook reads aloud in both English and Spanish with word highlighting and audio speed control to promote oral language skills, fluency, pronunciation, text engagement, and reading comprehension.


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