This series uses cartoon style illustrations and humorous narrative text to make key topics in Science and Geography both accessible and engaging. This approach encourages children to read about and understand complex ideas. This book follows the path of the sun from dawn to dusk. We learn how light rays travel out from the sun, how shadows are formed, how the moon lights up the night sky and how the earth orbits the sun once every year. This book also contains an experiment, more great facts to know, useful websites and an index.

About the Author

Jacqui Bailey is an award-winning author with more than 20 children's information books to her name, including A Cartoon History of the Earth series.

Prizes

Colourful cartoon style illustrations, speech bubbles and lively text make scientific ideas easy to understandKey topics for primary schools presented in a unique wayIncludes fascinating fact boxes, a themed experiment, a list of useful websites and an indexCreated with the help of expert consultants including scientists from the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University and the Thames Explorer TrustLife Finds its Feet, a title in the earlier Cartoon History series was shortlisted for the prestigious Aventis Prize for Science, for the Blue Peter Book Awards and has been chosen as a recommended read for World Book Day 2003.

Reviews

Gr 2-4-These excellent science books explain their subjects lucidly and sometimes amusingly. In Bones, a Coelophysis misses its prey, crashes into a river, breaks its back, and drowns, although the skeleton keeps up a running commentary throughout the rest of the book, even when it is in pieces and stored on the shelf in a museum. From there, the author takes readers and the dinosaur step-by-step through fossilization, rock layering and upheaval, discovery by hikers of a fossil, the unearthing of other fossil bones by paleontologists, and ultimate classification, reconstruction, and exhibition in a museum. The second title guides readers through a day on Earth, clearly explaining the effect of Earth's rotation and orbit. Color cartoons, while less inspired than those in Joanna Cole's "Magic School Bus" series (Scholastic), keep the books lively and enticing, and children will be illuminated and engaged. End matter includes "More Great Stuff to Know," "Try It and See," and a small trivia section. A meta-Web site, FactHound.com, crawls the Web for sites related to the topics and vets them and makes sure the links work. First choices for any collection.-Dona Ratterree, New York City Public Schools Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.