The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Harris, Nicholas

The Incredible Journey to the Planets

32 pp. | Bedrick | October, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-87226-600-1 $$18.95

(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Sebastian Quigley & Gary Hincks. In a cramped design, labeled diagrams, paintings, charts, and a sparse, largely error-free text introduce various astronomical objects in our solar system. With two pages per topic, basic facts, such as atmosphere, composition, and relative size and distance, are relayed. Though gimmicky, a cutaway center portal shows, with a turn of the page, the planets' placement in relation to each other and to the sun. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Harry Clement Stubbs