Saturn

by Christine Taylor-Butler

Discover Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun in our solar system. Scholastic News Nonfiction Space Science series gives the youngest reader (Ages 6-7) an introduction to Space. Each book includes chapters that help readers identify key details while the photographs, and other text features encourage students to make connections on their own.

Genres: Education, Childrens, Science, Nonfiction

24 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2005

Reviews

[Jc · Rating 4 out of 5]

The ringed planet is explored in this great, easy for youngsters to read book.

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the third book we have read from Taylor-Butler and we have enjoyed them all. They are the perfect level for preschoolers who are just beginning to show an interest in the solar system. Each page has some basic information with wonderful images. There is also a word hunt list at the beginning of the book for things like "orbit", "solar system", etc and I love that the book provides a simple explanation of what each term means. When we read these books my daughter constantly asks "what do that mean?" when we come across a new term. Sometimes I admit to being stumped to come up with a simple enough explanation. The books ends with a short chart comparing things like the length of a year, day, size and number of moons between Earth and Saturn. It always amazes my daughter when she reads about how many more moons the other planets have compared to Earth. This is a great series I suggest for the preschool level.

[Shelley R.]

The book Saturn, is great for a research projects or just educated reading, it has a loads of useful information. If you are researching planets, Christine Taylor-Butler, (the author) has a whole series of books about planets.

[Julesmarie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This review is for the whole series.

I purchased three sets of books on the planets for my students to use as they did a research project during our astronomy unit. I have to say that this set was my least favorite. The text is written in something like 36 pt font, so there are perhaps 100 words total in the 24-page book.

The only thing I found useful was the last page of each book that had a summary of facts about the planet.

[Kristin Waitkus]

Book of a series. Great book for unit on space and also good to use to teach non-fiction features such as labels, diagrams, vocabulary, etc.