Earth Cycles

Features

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Cover Type: Paperback with 32 pages
• Published by: Millbrook Press August 3, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0761319778
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0761319771
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 8.9 x 0.1 inches
• Weighs: 4.3 ounces

From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 3-In easy-to-read but expressive language, the author explains how different cycles result in day and night and changes in time and seasons on Earth. Attractive watercolor paintings enhance the text. The uncluttered pages, many with white type on dark-blue backgrounds, will be inviting to young readers. This title will be especially useful for classroom units.
Eunice Weech, M. L. King Elementary School, Urbana, IL
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist
Gr. 1-3. "Each day you ride on a slowly spinning planet Earth from day to night and back again." In clear language suitable for beginning readers, this explains the Earth's cycles of rotation, which cause the shifts between day and night and the seasons, as well as the moon's varying shape. Straightforward, realistic watercolor illustrations alternate between scenes of seasonal activity on Earth (riding a bike, raking leaves, sledding) and powerful, deep blue spreads of outer space. Direct, simple, and ideal for classroom support, this appealing introduction to Earth's movement remains narrowly focused on its topic, so children learning about space for the first time may want to supplement this with other books that show Earth within the greater solar system. Gillian Engberg
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