Baby Loves Gravity!
Baby Loves Gravity!
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Charlesbridge Publishing
Just the Series: Baby Loves Science   

Series and Publisher: Baby Loves Science   

Annotation: A baby discovers the concept of gravity by picking things up from the floor and dropping them again.
Genre: [Physics]
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #6499791
Format: Board Book
Special Formats: Board Book Board Book
Copyright Date: 2018
Edition Date: 2018 Release Date: 05/01/18
Illustrator: Chan, Irene,
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: 1-580-89836-X
ISBN 13: 978-1-580-89836-2
Dewey: 531
LCCN: 2017012447
Dimensions: 18 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews

A baby and a dog discover gravity in this appealingly illustrated, developmentally inappropriate book.This and Baby Loves Coding are the latest offerings in the Baby Loves Science series of board books. These cute but overzealous attempts to create STEM students from children fresh from the womb seem aimed more at pushy parents than at doctoral candidates in diapers. Previous volumes have featured toddlers who love quarks, aerospace engineering, thermodynamics, and quantum physics. The contents of this book have been vetted for scientific accuracy; one wonders whether the creative team also vetted the practical value of teaching preschoolers to parrot answers to questions they're ill-equipped to pose or indeed comprehend: "Why does a noodle fall? / Because of gravity!" Babies will have observed the central action this book presents—the fall to the floor of some tidbit from their highchair trays—over and over, but does "When Baby drops something, the earth pulls it down" adequately describe the phenomenon? For a toddler audience, even simple explanations of the science in this book require more exposition than board books allow and raise more questions than they answer. "Everything is made of matter. The amount of matter is called mass." OK, what is matter? And if gravity makes spaghetti fall to Earth, why does it make the moon go around it? The baby has brown skin and tightly curled black hair.Good intentions gone wrong. (Board book. 1-4)

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Reading Level: 1.0
Interest Level: P-K
Baby drops a noodle.
PLOP!

Puppy gobbles it up!
SLURP!

Why does a noodle fall?

Because of gravity!

Everything is made of matter. The amount of matter is called mass.

PUPPY: LESS MASS
BABY: MORE MASS
THE EARTH: LOTS MORE MASS

Excerpted from Baby Loves Gravity! by Ruth Spiro
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Big, brainy science for the littlest listeners.

Accurate enough to satisfy an expert, yet simple enough for baby, this clever board book explores the ups and downs of gravity. When baby drops food from a high chair, why does it fall? Beautiful, visually stimulating illustrations complement age-appropriate language to encourage baby's sense of wonder. Parents and caregivers may learn a thing or two, as well!
 
With tongue firmly in cheek, the Baby Loves Science series is a fun-filled introduction to STEM concepts for babies, toddlers, and their grown-ups. 


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