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Information Graphics
Information Graphics: Space by Rogers, Simon (2015) Paperback
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First published February 24, 2015
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Simon Rogers
40 books6 followersSimon Rogers is the founding editor of the Guardian’s Datablog and has won numerous awards for his work, including a Royal Statistical Society’s award of excellence in 2012.
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April 29, 2015
Looking for a clever, easy to understand book to teach kids about space and the universe they live in? Look no further! SPACE, part of the "Information Graphics: Understand the facts in the blink of an eye" series, is the latest and greatest non-fiction book.
Loaded with information, the latest in the Information Graphics series from Big Picture Press will blow you away. Everything you ever wanted to know about objects in space, how the universe works, the solar system, space exploration and observation, and more is right here in an easy-to understand and fun, colorful format.
While it would benefit from a glossary and index, the convenient tabbed format still makes it easy to find the information you're looking for. The writing style is clear and concise, with just enough detail to get the point across and lead you searching for more information in the rest of the book. The book has been very well researched, and is up-to-date with planetary definitions and space exploration missions.
The design is spectacularly fun and innovative. There is so much color, and it actually aids in the organization of information on the pages. Each tabbed section, The Universe, The Sun, The Earth and the Moon, Observing Space, etc, is assigned its own color. Within each section the pages stick to that color scheme, but feature a rainbow of other colors to help illustrate points and make learning more interesting.
Innovative and fun, the latest Information Graphics title from Big Picture Press is bound to lead young readers into their own personal, creative exploration of SPACE.
Loaded with information, the latest in the Information Graphics series from Big Picture Press will blow you away. Everything you ever wanted to know about objects in space, how the universe works, the solar system, space exploration and observation, and more is right here in an easy-to understand and fun, colorful format.
While it would benefit from a glossary and index, the convenient tabbed format still makes it easy to find the information you're looking for. The writing style is clear and concise, with just enough detail to get the point across and lead you searching for more information in the rest of the book. The book has been very well researched, and is up-to-date with planetary definitions and space exploration missions.
The design is spectacularly fun and innovative. There is so much color, and it actually aids in the organization of information on the pages. Each tabbed section, The Universe, The Sun, The Earth and the Moon, Observing Space, etc, is assigned its own color. Within each section the pages stick to that color scheme, but feature a rainbow of other colors to help illustrate points and make learning more interesting.
Innovative and fun, the latest Information Graphics title from Big Picture Press is bound to lead young readers into their own personal, creative exploration of SPACE.
December 3, 2018
Another one of my Boekenfestijn books, and boy it was fun to read. It is all about space but with fun graphics and bright colours. The book is split in various sections which you can easily access as each one has a different tab (and again with different colours). My favourite sections are Galaxies and Stars + The Sun. I did love how they first talked about space/galaxy, and then slowly went to humans and what we humans are doing for space, about discoveries, about travelling.
Very fun to read, and definitely a book I would recommend to all those kids (and adults) who love space and want a fun book about it.
Very fun to read, and definitely a book I would recommend to all those kids (and adults) who love space and want a fun book about it.
July 14, 2019
A short, basic book featuring neon infographics about space. Some info still made my eyes glaze over, but the sections “Living in Space” and “What is a Black Hole?” were interesting.
April 16, 2015
When I first got this book I thought it was going to be about stuff I already knew about space, but WOW was I surprised. It turns out I knew much less than I thought I did. This book has a ton of information, and I learned so much. I’ve already read it 3 times and can’t wait to read it again.
I really loved the parts about the sun. Before I read this book, I knew that the sun is a star in our solar system and that we orbit around it, but now I know the parts of the sun and that it has a kind of atmosphere just like Earth has an atmosphere.
My favorite part of the informational text was about the universe. I learned that the universe keeps expanding. It makes me wonder how long it will keep expanding, if it will ever stop, and if it will ever contract. I was surprised to learn that scientists only think they know how old the universe is – about 13.8 billion years, which is way older than my mom! – but they are not sure.
The book is well organized. The layout of the book makes it easy to get to different sections, the diagrams are helpful, and the colors are amazing and bright. It helped make it easy to understand the text. There are also interesting questions on the back cover of the book, and it makes it exciting to go inside the pages to figure out the answers.
I recommend this book to boys and girls no younger than 2nd grade, because there are some tricky words in it. I would also recommend to the author that she add a glossary and an index at the back of the book to help me remember what some of the hard words mean.
5 stars absolutely.
Review by Lucy H., age 8, Tampa Bay Mensa, Starred Reviewer
I really loved the parts about the sun. Before I read this book, I knew that the sun is a star in our solar system and that we orbit around it, but now I know the parts of the sun and that it has a kind of atmosphere just like Earth has an atmosphere.
My favorite part of the informational text was about the universe. I learned that the universe keeps expanding. It makes me wonder how long it will keep expanding, if it will ever stop, and if it will ever contract. I was surprised to learn that scientists only think they know how old the universe is – about 13.8 billion years, which is way older than my mom! – but they are not sure.
The book is well organized. The layout of the book makes it easy to get to different sections, the diagrams are helpful, and the colors are amazing and bright. It helped make it easy to understand the text. There are also interesting questions on the back cover of the book, and it makes it exciting to go inside the pages to figure out the answers.
I recommend this book to boys and girls no younger than 2nd grade, because there are some tricky words in it. I would also recommend to the author that she add a glossary and an index at the back of the book to help me remember what some of the hard words mean.
5 stars absolutely.
Review by Lucy H., age 8, Tampa Bay Mensa, Starred Reviewer
June 24, 2015
The presentation of this book is bold, bright, and striking. Designed to appeal to children ages 8-12, it is sure to grab their attention as they look through the sections that are specially color coordinated with tabs for easy search. There is no index or glossary, but kids will find their way through this book that is filled with amazing bits of information about "space" - that is our Earth, the planets, the Sun, the Moon, and beyond to the galaxies and stars to the Universe itself.
The book begins with an understatement.... "Space is so mind-bogglingly vast...." and yet that statement says it all in a nutshell. It simply amazes the mind with the vastness that is Space!
And the information this little book presents is pretty vast, too. Each tabbed section begins with an "essay" about that section's topic and then the fun, facts, and fabulous graphics begin to unload lots of information on the reader. I find this book amazing, humorous, informative, bright, fun. The book is written with the premise that our solar system is billions of years old, so readers will have to sort that out to their own particular belief system and how it affects the beginning. Personally, I believe God created it all.
This is a secular publication and very well done. It is published by Big Picture Press an imprint of Candlewick Press. I received a complimentary copy to facilitate this review. No compensation was received and opinions are strictly my own.
The book begins with an understatement.... "Space is so mind-bogglingly vast...." and yet that statement says it all in a nutshell. It simply amazes the mind with the vastness that is Space!
And the information this little book presents is pretty vast, too. Each tabbed section begins with an "essay" about that section's topic and then the fun, facts, and fabulous graphics begin to unload lots of information on the reader. I find this book amazing, humorous, informative, bright, fun. The book is written with the premise that our solar system is billions of years old, so readers will have to sort that out to their own particular belief system and how it affects the beginning. Personally, I believe God created it all.
This is a secular publication and very well done. It is published by Big Picture Press an imprint of Candlewick Press. I received a complimentary copy to facilitate this review. No compensation was received and opinions are strictly my own.
July 11, 2024
Really pretty and informative!
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