(3) K-3 Our Universe series. Illustrated by David Litchfield. This companion to Earth!: My First 4.54 Billion Years; Sun!: One in a Billion, et al., focuses on the impact of human activity on our warming planet. Giving readers simple steps to address climate change, the cheerful text invites them to choose "human power--that's from your own two feet" and other sustainable resources. A large, smiling Earth fills, and sometimes spills over the edges of, square pages. With its long eyelashes and bright brown eyes, the endearing planet narrator makes a strong case. An author's note, additional related information, and a source list are appended.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(3) K-3 Ready-to-Read: Our Universe series. Illustrated by John Wallace. With one clear, informative sentence per page, Bauer gives young readers solid introductory information about our closest neighbor in the universe. Wallace's uncluttered illustrations are welcoming and help with reading comprehension. For example, "our moon lights up our night sky, but it has no light of its own," accompanies a simple, clear diagram of light from the sun bouncing off the moon toward earth. Specialized vocabulary words such as satellite and gravity appear in a glossary preceding the main text to prepare young readers for success. A page of "Interesting Facts" concludes this accessible title. The series also includes Earth and Mars.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(3) 4-6 Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe series. Elementary facts about bodies in the solar system and throughout the universe are portioned out across multiple slim volumes. Each book includes broad descriptions of the featured astronomical topic; historical and current thinking about scientific features and composition; and the telescopes, probes, and spacecraft used to investigate them. Captioned photographs, diagrams, and sidebars effectively supplement the satisfactory texts. Glos., ind. Review covers these Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe titles: The Moon, Galaxies, The Sun, The Amazing Universe, Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids, Planets, and Stars.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(4) 4-6 Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe series. Doudna skim-surveys the technologies employed to explore space, from the first visible-light tools used by Galileo to today's X-ray, radio, and infrared Earth and space telescopes. Also included are very brief descriptions of early NASA missions, the space shuttle, space stations, and farther-reaching spacecraft. Diagrams and photographs effectively portray the various machines and the scientists and astronauts who worked on them. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(3) 4-6 Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe series. Elementary facts about bodies in the solar system and throughout the universe are portioned out across multiple slim volumes. Each book includes broad descriptions of the featured astronomical topic; historical and current thinking about scientific features and composition; and the telescopes, probes, and spacecraft used to investigate them. Captioned photographs, diagrams, and sidebars effectively supplement the satisfactory texts. Glos., ind. Review covers these Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe titles: The Moon, Galaxies, The Sun, The Amazing Universe, Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids, Planets, and Stars.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(3) 4-6 Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe series. Elementary facts about bodies in the solar system and throughout the universe are portioned out across multiple slim volumes. Each book includes broad descriptions of the featured astronomical topic; historical and current thinking about scientific features and composition; and the telescopes, probes, and spacecraft used to investigate them. Captioned photographs, diagrams, and sidebars effectively supplement the satisfactory texts. Glos., ind. Review covers these Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe titles: The Moon, Galaxies, The Sun, The Amazing Universe, Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids, Planets, and Stars.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(3) 4-6 Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe series. Elementary facts about bodies in the solar system and throughout the universe are portioned out across multiple slim volumes. Each book includes broad descriptions of the featured astronomical topic; historical and current thinking about scientific features and composition; and the telescopes, probes, and spacecraft used to investigate them. Captioned photographs, diagrams, and sidebars effectively supplement the satisfactory texts. Glos., ind. Review covers these Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe titles: The Moon, Galaxies, The Sun, The Amazing Universe, Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids, Planets, and Stars.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(3) 4-6 Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe series. Elementary facts about bodies in the solar system and throughout the universe are portioned out across multiple slim volumes. Each book includes broad descriptions of the featured astronomical topic; historical and current thinking about scientific features and composition; and the telescopes, probes, and spacecraft used to investigate them. Captioned photographs, diagrams, and sidebars effectively supplement the satisfactory texts. Glos., ind. Review covers these Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe titles: The Moon, Galaxies, The Sun, The Amazing Universe, Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids, Planets, and Stars.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(3) 4-6 Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe series. Elementary facts about bodies in the solar system and throughout the universe are portioned out across multiple slim volumes. Each book includes broad descriptions of the featured astronomical topic; historical and current thinking about scientific features and composition; and the telescopes, probes, and spacecraft used to investigate them. Captioned photographs, diagrams, and sidebars effectively supplement the satisfactory texts. Glos., ind. Review covers these Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe titles: The Moon, Galaxies, The Sun, The Amazing Universe, Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids, Planets, and Stars.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(3) 4-6 Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe series. Elementary facts about bodies in the solar system and throughout the universe are portioned out across multiple slim volumes. Each book includes broad descriptions of the featured astronomical topic; historical and current thinking about scientific features and composition; and the telescopes, probes, and spacecraft used to investigate them. Captioned photographs, diagrams, and sidebars effectively supplement the satisfactory texts. Glos., ind. Review covers these Checkerboard Library: Exploring Our Universe titles: The Moon, Galaxies, The Sun, The Amazing Universe, Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids, Planets, and Stars.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(4) K-3 Our Universe series. Illustrated with color photos, each of these small, square books presents basic facts about a particular body in the solar system (or, in the case of Solar System, the nine planets). Independent readers would be much better served by Seymour Simon's series on the planets, but these brief volumes provide encyclopedia-style information in an easy-to-digest manner. There are seven other fall 2003 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Our Universe titles: Jupiter, Mars, The Moon, Pluto, Saturn, and The Solar System.]

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(4) K-3 Our Universe series. Illustrated with color photos, each of these small, square books presents basic facts about a particular body in the solar system (or, in the case of Solar System, the nine planets). Independent readers would be much better served by Seymour Simon's series on the planets, but these brief volumes provide encyclopedia-style information in an easy-to-digest manner. There are seven other fall 2003 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Our Universe titles: Jupiter, Mars, The Moon, Pluto, Saturn, and The Solar System.]

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(4) K-3 Our Universe series. Illustrated with color photos, each of these small, square books presents basic facts about a particular body in the solar system (or, in the case of Solar System, the nine planets). Independent readers would be much better served by Seymour Simon's series on the planets, but these brief volumes provide encyclopedia-style information in an easy-to-digest manner. There are seven other fall 2003 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Our Universe titles: Jupiter, Mars, The Moon, Pluto, Saturn, and The Solar System.]

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(4) K-3 Our Universe series. Illustrated with color photos, each of these small, square books presents basic facts about a particular body in the solar system (or, in the case of Solar System, the nine planets). Independent readers would be much better served by Seymour Simon's series on the planets, but these brief volumes provide encyclopedia-style information in an easy-to-digest manner. There are seven other fall 2003 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Our Universe titles: Jupiter, Mars, The Moon, Pluto, Saturn, and The Solar System.]

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(4) K-3 Our Universe series. Illustrated with color photos, each of these small, square books presents basic facts about a particular body in the solar system (or, in the case of Solar System, the nine planets). Independent readers would be much better served by Seymour Simon's series on the planets, but these brief volumes provide encyclopedia-style information in an easy-to-digest manner. There are seven other fall 2003 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Our Universe titles: Jupiter, Mars, The Moon, Pluto, Saturn, and The Solar System.]

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(4) K-3 Our Universe series. Illustrated with color photos, each of these small, square books presents basic facts about a particular body in the solar system (or, in the case of Solar System, the nine planets). Independent readers would be much better served by Seymour Simon's series on the planets, but these brief volumes provide encyclopedia-style information in an easy-to-digest manner. There are seven other fall 2003 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Our Universe titles: Jupiter, Mars, The Moon, Pluto, Saturn, and The Solar System.]

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn