Pieces Of Another World

Astronomy

by Mara Rockliff, Salima Alikhan (Illustrator)

This touching story of a father and child s nighttime excursion to watch a meteor shower is told through the eyes of a child in awe of the night world. Rockliff s vivid descriptions make readers feel as though they too are watching the tiny bits of other, distant worlds blazing into our own.The For Creative Minds education section includes teaching trivia about meteors, meteor showers, comets, and asteroids as well as a Meteor Math game, a Five Steps to a Fantastic Meteor Watching Party checklist, and a recipe for comet cookies.
This fictional story includes a 4-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 49-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Pieces of Another World is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs.
Also available in the following
Pedazos de otro mundo ISBN 9781628553543

Genres: Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published September 20, 2005

About the author

Mara Rockliff is the author of many well-loved books for children. Her newest picture book is All at Once Upon a Time, about which Booklist warns, "Be prepared for this amusing storytime selection to be requested over and over."

Among her best-known titles are Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France, winner of the Cook Prize and an Orbis Pictus Honor; Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles, distributed to schools and libraries across the country by the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission; and Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which in 2023 received a Sibert Honor from the American Library Association.

Under the pen name Lewis B. Montgomery, she also wrote all twelve books in the popular Milo & Jazz Mysteries chapter book series, which has been translated into Spanish, French, Turkish, and Chinese.

Rockliff lives in Western Massachusetts. Visit her online at mararockliff.com.

Reviews

[Matthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story about stargazing is told with such careful attention to detail. It's really an impressive piece of work, similar in style to Owl Moon or Barn Savers or even Night Tree in that it is as much a story of parental bonding as it is a story about stargazing. The explanation at the end about meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids is succinct, yet engaging. Overall, this is a solid book, well worth the read.

[Meg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sweet story of a girl watching meteors with her dad in the middle of the night. Loved the science gently woven in.