Review by C.J. Bunce
I always figure second grade is the make or break year for kids. It’s the best opportunity to reveal all the components of the world to them before they follow along with the crowd into the next “in” thing. When I was in second grade I had chicken pox, and my teacher provided me with a stack of books to read at home for the next two weeks. One was about Easter Island, one was about King Tutankhamen, one was about Thor Heyerdahl, and the rest were about space exploration. Just in time for your kids–or you, should outer space be a recent passion for you–is an updated edition of Marcus Chown’s Solar System: A Visual Exploration of All the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies That Orbit Our Sun, available now here at Amazon, a survey of the subject for amateur astronomers.
At a minimum, this book should be in every school and public library.
