The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Walton, Ruth

Let's Go to the Playground

32 pp. | Sea to Sea | March, 2013 | Library ISBN 978-1-59771-388-7 $28.50

(4) K-3 Let's Find Out series. This wide-ranging overview uses common playground equipment (swings, slide, merry-go-round) to explore principles such as gravity and centrifugal force. Illustrations that resemble cut-paper and photo collage are accompanied by captioned photos and sidebars, which extend the generally judicious though randomly presented coverage (including the now almost-extinct teeter-totter). A "Design a Playground!" activity is appended. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian