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Let's Investigate with Nate: The Solar System
Let's Investigate with Nate: The Solar System
Reviewed by: Karen Spiliopoulos - Parsons Memorial Library, Alfred, Southern Maine Library District
Review Date: March 12, 2018
Review
This is the second book in a new STEM-based picture book series from the Emmy Award-winning host of PBS’s Design Squad and Design Squad Nation, Nate Ball. With a lively cast of characters and vibrant illustrations by Wes Hargis, it's an adventure in learning!
Every Saturday morning four friends, Wendy, Braden, Rosa, and Felix meet with Nate at the Science Museum for a new adventure and discovery. This week they will explore the solar system and determine for themselves whether or not Pluto is a planet. The explorers don their space gear and travel the galaxy from Earth to Pluto learning all they can about space and what is or isn't a planet. Great fun for the space fan in all of us. Bubbles for the youngest learners and more detailed sidebars for older readers. I am looking forward to the next adventure.
Overall Book Score: very good
About the Book
Author:
Ball, Nate
Illustrator: Hargis, Wes
Illustration Quality: good
Publisher: Harper Collins children's
Book Type: picture book nonfiction
Genre: adventure
Audience: grades k-3
Binding Type: trade edition
Binding Quality: very good
ISBN: 9780062357434
Price: 17.99