Puff: All About Air

by Emily Kate Moon, Emily Kate Moon (Illustrator)

Overview

Breathe deep and prepare to sail like the wind, with the sweetest puff of air in all the atmosphere—from the creator of Drop: An Adventure through the Water Cycle

Look who just blew in! Meet Puff. He's air. And he's a gas! Puff has been here for billions of years, forming a blanket of protection around Earth to hold in heat and keep out cold. Puff is key to life—he's the air we breathe and the wind around us. And he's got talent! Have you ever incinerated a space rock? Traveled from the highest heights to the deepest depths of the sea? Or spun through a tornado? Puff has! He'll tell you all about it. With refreshing wit and breezy one-liners, Puff takes readers on an airy adventure through the atmosphere, earth, water, and you. Filled with irresistible artwork, funny asides, and a gentle current of kid-enticing facts, Puff is the breath of fresh air we’ve all needed.

"Fresh and breezy.” —Kirkus
"Cheerful [and] easy to understand." —Booklist

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593617960
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	03/19/2024
Series:	A Science Pals Book , #2
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	806,149
Product dimensions:	9.38(w) x 10.31(h) x 0.33(d)
Lexile:	AD610L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Emily Kate Moon is the author and illustrator of Drop: An Adventure Through the Water Cycle. A writer, artist, and cloud-gazer, Emily loves to marvel at the wonders of nature, and writes and paints as a way to appreciate her world. She lives and breathes by the beach in Jupiter, Florida, with her two sons and their dog Romeo.

Editorial Reviews

A white puff with a stylish quiff conducts readers through simple explanations of how our atmosphere goes everywhere—even deep into the oceans and beneath the surface of the land—to help keep Earth warm, carry droplets of water, deliver the oxygen we require and the carbon dioxide plants need to survive, and spread pollen and seeds. . . . Fresh and breezy.” —Kirkus

"This beginner science text explains in easy-to-understand terms and formatting how important air is to life on Earth, including in the sky, underground, and in the sea. . . . Puff, a cute mass of air who has been on Earth since the planet's inception [features in] cheerful illustrations." —Booklist

From the Publisher

2023-12-16
An invitation to appreciate the invisible blanket of gases that protect our planet.

In a similarly whimsical follow-up to Drop: An Adventure Through the Water Cycle (2021), a white puff with a smiley face and a stylish quiff conducts readers through simple explanations of how our atmosphere goes everywhere—even deep into the oceans and beneath the surface of the land—to help keep Earth warm, carry droplets of water, deliver the oxygen we require and the carbon dioxide plants need to survive, and spread pollen and seeds. All the smiles, plus neatly drawn flora and fauna floating through blue waters or wafting by under sunny skies, create a beneficent picture undimmed by any mention of hurricanes or jet streams; even the swirling tornado quickly gives way to an assurance that “most of the time, Puff cruises gently” from warmer areas to cooler or vice versa. Sandwiched between summary overviews of our atmosphere’s composition and the ins and outs of forces governing atmospheric circulation, the tour concludes with a cheery “Yay! Breathe it all in!” Two brown-skinned human children do just that in the illustrations, either sitting mindfully or standing beneath a windswept kite.

Fresh and breezy, if a bit thin. (Informational picture book. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews