Steve Jenkins
Looking Down
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- General / Multiple Sciences
- Story / Adventure
A wordless sequence zooms from Earth in space through continents, a coast, a town, a yard, and finally a ladybug beneath a magnifying glass. The nested visual journey makes scale and point of view something children infer from page turns instead of a lesson about measurement.
The science inside
- Scientific Discovery & Careers
Your child will meet:
- The same location or object reveals different information when viewed at a different scale.
- A sequence of images can model how smaller regions fit inside larger ones.
- Magnification reveals details that are difficult to see with the unaided eye.
Use it this way
Parent effort: No prep
In this wordless picture book, readers first see Earth as the astronauts do, as a small ball in the black universe. As the point of view moves gradually closer, we can see continents and oceans, then the East Coast of the United States, then a town (an imaginary one), until, finally, we are looking through a boy's magnifying glass at a ladybug. In his remarkable and detailed cut-paper illustrations, the artist takes us on an amazing journey from outer space to a young boy's front yard.
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