planets

Presents a guide to the solar system, featuring photographs, illustrations, and descriptions of the solar system as a whole, each of the nine planets, comets, asteroids, and meteorites. The sun and other stars; Telescopes and space probes; Saturn and Uranus; Neptune and Pluto;Mercury and Venus; Mars; Jupiter; Human space exploration;Galaxies and the universe; Earth and earth's moon.

Explains what is known about the stars and planets in a simple format for children.

An illustrated guide to the stars and planets, providing a general introduction to astronomy; containing a detailed guide to the Solar System; featuring an alphabetical catalog of the constellations; and including a month-by-month companion to the night sky.

Introduces young readers to planets, with simple text, graphics, and NASA and European Space Station images.

Presents facts about each of the nine planets, describing their surfaces, orbits, and moons, and includes a planet memory game.

Dr. Quasar gives a group of children a tour of the solar system, describing each of the planets from Mercury to Pluto.

Explores the planets of the solar system; describing their landscapes, atmospheres, and temperatures. Includes glossary.

Illustrations and simple text teach young readers about the solar system, including information on the sun, the planets and their many moons, and the asteroids and comets.

Describes the nine planets and other bodies of the solar system; includes directions for making models showing the size of the planets and their distance from the sun.

This book tells about eight planets and includes a song about the planets to the tune of "Where is Thumbkin?".