LANDAU, Elaine . Earth . ISBN 978-0-531-12558-8 . LC 2007012278. LANDAU, Elaine . Jupiter . ISBN 978-0-531-12559-5 . LC 2007003869. LANDAU, Elaine . Mars . ISBN 978-0-531-12560-1 . LC 2007012260. LANDAU, Elaine . Mercury . ISBN 978-0-531-12561-8 . LC 2007012277. LANDAU, Elaine . The Moon ISBN 978-0-531-12562-5 . LC 2007004183. LANDAU, Elaine . Neptune . ISBN 978-0-531-12563-2 . LC 2007008257. LANDAU, Elaine . Pluto: From Planet to Dwarf . ISBN 978-0-531-12566-3 . LC 2007012279. LANDAU, Elaine . Saturn . ISBN 978-0-531-12567-0 . LC 2007004181. LANDAU, Elaine . The Sun . ISBN 978-0-531-12568-7 . LC 2007012259. LANDAU, Elaine . Uranus . ISBN 978-0-531-12569-4 . LC 2007012258. LANDAU, Elaine . Venus . ISBN 978-0-531-12564-9 . LC 2007004449. ea vol: 48p. (A True Book). diags. illus. photos. reprods. further reading. glossary. index. Web sites. CIP. Childrens Press 2007. PLB $26. Gr 2-4 -Featuring a new author and a colorful redesign, these volumes expertly update Larry Dane Brimners 1998 editions, and also add a title that looks past Pluto into the Kuiper Belt, the Oort Cloud, and the search for extrasolar planets. Each one matches a clearly reasoned, matter-of-fact text to plenty of small but sharply reproduced color photos and pages of new or restated facts, and rounded off with multimedia lists of audience-appropriate further resources. Despite minor bobbles (for instance, Landau assigns the space probe New Horizons different speeds in Pluto and Beyond Pluto ), these remain the gold standard for post-picture-book nonfiction, and should be first purchases for any library that serves fledgling readers.