Jason Chin
Your Place in the Universe
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Astronomy & Space
- Story / Adventure
Jason Chin begins with an eight-year-old reader and repeatedly zooms outward through buildings, Earth, the solar system, the galaxy, and the observable universe. The visual journey makes otherwise abstract measurements feel like a sequence of nested places whose scale can be compared step by step.
The science inside
- Scientific Discovery & Careers
- Space & Planets
- Spaceflight
Your child will meet:
- Very large distances require appropriate units and multiplicative comparisons because ordinary everyday units become unwieldy.
- Each scale in the sequence contains smaller structures, from a person and buildings through Earth, the solar system, the Milky Way, and larger cosmic structure.
- Orders of magnitude describe how quantities change by repeated factors such as ten rather than by equal additions.
- A visual scale model represents relationships among sizes and distances but is not the same thing as the objects it models.
Use it this way
Parent effort: Quick discussion
Explore the known Universe and consider its mind-boggling scale in this crisply illustrated, well-researched picture book from Caldecott Medalist Jason Chin. Winner of the Cook Prize! Now available in paperback. Most eight-year-olds are about five times as tall as this book . . . but only half as tall as an ostrich, which is half as tall as a giraffe . . . twenty times smaller than a California Redwood! How do they compare to the tallest buildings? To Mt. Everest? To stars, galaxy clusters, and . . . the universe? Jason Chin, the award-winning author and illustrator of Grand Canyon has once again found a way to make a complex subject--size, scale and almost unimaginable distance--accessible and understandable to readers of all ages. Meticulously researched and featuring the highly detailed artwork for which he is renowned, this is How Much is a Million for the new millenium, sure to be an immediate hit with kids looking for an engaging way to delve into perspective, astronomy, and astrophysics. Curious readers will love the extensive supplementary material included in the back of the back of the book An American Library Association Notable Children's Book A New England Book Award Finalist A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A S chool Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year
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