Planet Earth/Inside Out

by Gail Gibbons, Gail Gibbons (Illustrator)

Overview

A basic and enjoyable introduction to our planet from Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Award winner Gail Gibbons!

What if we could open up our planet and look inside? From its red-hot core to the highest mountain peak, come see the ins and outs of Earth as you’ve never seen them before in a colorful introduction to the powerful forces shaping our home.

With detailed illustrations and diagrams, Gail Gibbons offers a classroom-ready nonfiction picture book that makes complex scientific concepts understandable and entertaining for young readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780688158491
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/27/1998
Edition description:	1 MULBERRY
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	82,477
Product dimensions:	11.25(w) x 8.38(h) x 0.00(d)
Lexile:	800L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Gail Gibbons, author of more than one hundred books, is the winner of the Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Award for her overall contribution to children’s nonfiction literature. Called a “master of picture book nonfiction” by ALA Booklist, Ms. Gibbons has a special talent for making complex subjects understandable and entertaining for young readers.

Gail Gibbons, author of more than one hundred books, is the winner of the Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Award for her overall contribution to children’s nonfiction literature. Called a “master of picture book nonfiction” by ALA Booklist, Ms. Gibbons has a special talent for making complex subjects understandable and entertaining for young readers.

Editorial Reviews

A smooth initiation into earth science.

Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books

Gr 1-3From Pangaea to recycling, Gibbons skims the surface of geology, touching on plate tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes, and climates. Simple, full-color drawings illustrate the concepts. While some parts of the diagrams are labeled and arrows are used to indicate movement, there aren't enough captions to explain some of the geological processes depicted. Also, two of the three examples of sedimentary rocks, which are defined as ``...most of the time...made from fragments of rock that have been stuck together,'' are not made from rock fragments; limestone and chalk are both made primarily from pieces of shell and bone. Joanna Cole's The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth (Scholastic, 1987) provides similar coverage in a livelier package, while individual topics (volcanoes, rocks, etc.) are covered in any number of titles in the ``New True Books'' series (Childrens) or in books by Seymour Simon. As an overview, Gibbons's book is an adequate supplemental purchase.Elaine Fort Weischedel, Turner Free Library, Randolph, MA

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