Meet the Planets
Meet the Planets
Caryl Hart
Bethan Woollvin
Bloomsbury, 2020
32pp., pbk., RRP $A14.99
9781408892985
Young readers are invited to join an aspiring young astronaut and her trusty dog to climb into a rocket and fly on a journey to meet the planets that they see in the night sky, beginning with the sun and going out to the dwarf planet Pluto in a series of informative rhymes and intriguing illustrations designed to make them appear friendly.
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Useful as both an introduction to the solar system and perhaps to allay fears of the dark, this is a unique approach to help young readers learn about what’s out there in that night sky. Its bold palette and its humour (in both text and graphics) bring each planet to life – Venus is the ‘goddess of beauty’; Jupiter the ‘king of the planets’, Saturn is ‘your beautiful queen’ while the reader is called “lucky” to have Earth as there is no other like it – giving them a presence that makes them real rather than remote, and inspires an evening of sky-watching to see what can be seen. Share this website to help inform their viewing.