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There’s No Place Like Space!
I'm the Cat in the Hat
and we're off to have fun.
We'll visit the planets,
the stars and the sun!
Join the Cat in the Hat as he introduces beginning readers to important concepts about our solar system.
Bibliographical note: There is a strap-line on the cover 'All about our Solar System' but this is not carried through to the title page so the book is catalogued accordingly. There is also another edition similar to this one that has the ISBN 9780007975266.
and we're off to have fun.
We'll visit the planets,
the stars and the sun!
Join the Cat in the Hat as he introduces beginning readers to important concepts about our solar system.
Bibliographical note: There is a strap-line on the cover 'All about our Solar System' but this is not carried through to the title page so the book is catalogued accordingly. There is also another edition similar to this one that has the ISBN 9780007975266.
48 pages, Paperback
First published October 26, 1999
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About the author
Tish Rabe
178 books49 followersTish Rabe is the bestselling author of over 170 books for Sesame Street, Disney, Dr. Seuss, and many more. She is Founder and Content Creator of Tish Rabe Books, LLC, an independent publishing company that partners with nonprofits and businesses to create books that make a positive difference in the lives of children, parents, teachers, and caregivers worldwide.
"Sweet Dreams Ahead Time for Bed" is a gentle, rhyming storybook written in partnership with Pajama Program, a national nonprofit that promotes healthy sleep routines and gives pajamas and books to children facing adversity.
"Days Can Be Sunny for Bunnies and Money", helps children learn how to manage money. It was produced with Clarity 2 Prosperity, a business development company for financial advisors. To learn more, visit tishrabe.com.
"Sweet Dreams Ahead Time for Bed" is a gentle, rhyming storybook written in partnership with Pajama Program, a national nonprofit that promotes healthy sleep routines and gives pajamas and books to children facing adversity.
"Days Can Be Sunny for Bunnies and Money", helps children learn how to manage money. It was produced with Clarity 2 Prosperity, a business development company for financial advisors. To learn more, visit tishrabe.com.
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July 30, 2017
The Cat In The Hat comes as a surprise when it demonstrates all its knowledge about solar planets in its rhyming fashion. Loved this informative and humorous book.
February 4, 2017
Lovely one ! !
November 28, 2012
Do you have a very young son or daughter, who is interested in outer space? Do you have a hard time finding books that explain outer space without being too simple or too complicated, or without simply being a mirage a pictures? Well, you are in because in Tish Rabe’s There is No Place Like Space, children can be taught about outer space, space exploration and the solar system by none other than the Cat in the Hat. In her book, Tish Rabe uses the familiar character of the Cat in the Hat to teach children unfamiliar facts about our solar system. Tish rabe uses Dr. Seuss like rhymes to teach astronomy to readers. But this book is not simply talk about the sun, the moon and the stars, but this book goes into constellations, space exploration vehicle, the names of planets, the size of planets compared to other planets and so many more cool facts. Even as I young adult I was wowed by this book, because of not only the information and facts, but also because of the great illustrations done throughout the book. The wonderful illustrations will leave you wanting to just flip to the next page to see what picture resides there. I would highly recommend this book, not only to parents and teachers of young children, but to anyone who is interested in space and wants to be astounded by the Cat in the Hat’s astronomical knowledge!
“But there’s a lot to discover, and it might be you who looks up in the sky and finds something that’s new!” -Dr, Seuss
“But there’s a lot to discover, and it might be you who looks up in the sky and finds something that’s new!” -Dr, Seuss
March 1, 2020
I am always a fan of Dr. Suess, and this book met my expectations! It's the perfect book to simply explain the solar system with the cutest rhyme! Everyone needs this book in their life.
September 11, 2022
Once again The Cat in the Hat presents a lot of learning in this book about the Solar System.
The Cat entices Dick and Jane into his space ship with the assurance, 'There's no place like space'. As they depart he tells them that there are nine planets in the solar system adding as they sight the first, Mercury, 'It is hot in the day time but freezing at night'.
He tells Dick and Jane that on Venus the weather is always the same, hot dry and windy with no chance of rain and then the third planet is their own, Earth. Thing 1 and Thing 2 ask the question why if the earth is always spinning, why don't they feel dizzy. The Cat explains the reason is that 'We're spinning with it right now every day'.
Rust coloured Mars is followed by Jupiter which is 'bigger than all the other planets combined' while Saturn has rings and is so light 'It could float in an ocean and not even sink' and Pluto is chilly and cold every night and all day because the sun is so far away.
The Cat gives a quite difficult mnemonic to remember the planets by and then shows the various formations that collections of stars form. And then there is a last look at the sun, 'a million of our Earths could fit right in it' and the moon, 'The moon dies not shine in the sky in the night, but, like a big mirror reflects the sun's light.'
He leaves them with a telescope to look up at the planets and when they do they discover the image of someone they know implanted on a planet down the end of the lens!
The Cat entices Dick and Jane into his space ship with the assurance, 'There's no place like space'. As they depart he tells them that there are nine planets in the solar system adding as they sight the first, Mercury, 'It is hot in the day time but freezing at night'.
He tells Dick and Jane that on Venus the weather is always the same, hot dry and windy with no chance of rain and then the third planet is their own, Earth. Thing 1 and Thing 2 ask the question why if the earth is always spinning, why don't they feel dizzy. The Cat explains the reason is that 'We're spinning with it right now every day'.
Rust coloured Mars is followed by Jupiter which is 'bigger than all the other planets combined' while Saturn has rings and is so light 'It could float in an ocean and not even sink' and Pluto is chilly and cold every night and all day because the sun is so far away.
The Cat gives a quite difficult mnemonic to remember the planets by and then shows the various formations that collections of stars form. And then there is a last look at the sun, 'a million of our Earths could fit right in it' and the moon, 'The moon dies not shine in the sky in the night, but, like a big mirror reflects the sun's light.'
He leaves them with a telescope to look up at the planets and when they do they discover the image of someone they know implanted on a planet down the end of the lens!
September 21, 2019
This is a wonderful scientific fiction book to read to kindergarten and first graders. This book incorporates fun poetry and learning the basics of our solar system in a way for students to remember. I love how the book travels through an adventure in our solar system; it is simple to read and easy to understand for young readers. This book is engaging and teachers can make it interactive during a read aloud.
In my future classroom, I would use this book to introduce students to learning about our solar system. It is a great "hook" to a lesson for students to be excited about what they will be learning. I believe it is important to incorporate reading into different subjects in the classroom. Another activity is for students to create a craft showing all the planets in our solar system using the information from the book! Teachers can make this creative and fun by having students use colorful materials!
This book is a WOW book for me because the book read like a fantasy story where we were taken on a journey through our solar system through poetry and scientific learning! It was engaging, interactive, and contained fun illustrations. I believe children in the classroom would be fascinated by this book as they are taken along the ride of a journey of our solar system too!
*I read this book as an e-text!
In my future classroom, I would use this book to introduce students to learning about our solar system. It is a great "hook" to a lesson for students to be excited about what they will be learning. I believe it is important to incorporate reading into different subjects in the classroom. Another activity is for students to create a craft showing all the planets in our solar system using the information from the book! Teachers can make this creative and fun by having students use colorful materials!
This book is a WOW book for me because the book read like a fantasy story where we were taken on a journey through our solar system through poetry and scientific learning! It was engaging, interactive, and contained fun illustrations. I believe children in the classroom would be fascinated by this book as they are taken along the ride of a journey of our solar system too!
*I read this book as an e-text!
August 12, 2009
The idea of "learn to read, read to learn" does appeal to me. But I'm always wary of famous characters being used after the death of their creator. Traditionalists will not like this series - Thing 1 and Thing 2 look different, and the brother from the The Cat in the Hat actually has a name. The illustrations, of course, look different from what Dr. Seuss would have produced.
But these issues seem pretty minor when the book produced is of reasonable quality, such as this. The rhyme and rhythm so typical of Seuss is there - maybe not Seuss at his best, but still acceptable. The illustrations are not Seuss, but the illustrator Aristides Ruiz has produced a nice compromise. He doesn't slavishly follow Seuss' style, but then again he manages to ensure that the Cat and other characters do fit in with the rest of the illustration.
I love the references to other books at the end!
Space is a topic which enthralls kids - and they'll enjoy even more with this easy to digest book.
But these issues seem pretty minor when the book produced is of reasonable quality, such as this. The rhyme and rhythm so typical of Seuss is there - maybe not Seuss at his best, but still acceptable. The illustrations are not Seuss, but the illustrator Aristides Ruiz has produced a nice compromise. He doesn't slavishly follow Seuss' style, but then again he manages to ensure that the Cat and other characters do fit in with the rest of the illustration.
I love the references to other books at the end!
Space is a topic which enthralls kids - and they'll enjoy even more with this easy to digest book.
May 27, 2014
I liked this one much more than the one about maps: There's a Map on my Lap!
This one has big words and advanced concepts, but not so many that interest wanes. My 4 year old son has asked to read this one several times, in contrast to the map one. However, we skip the page with the "helpful" sentence to remember the names of the planets in the right order. Surely the author could have come up with a better line?!? Too long, too weird, too complicated. I think my son finds it easier to just remember the names of the planets. But maybe that's just because he's only four.
Oh, I guess we have the older version, with Pluto still having planet status. Didn't they reverse that decision? I'm losing track, but I think they're calling it a dwarf planet now, no?
This one has big words and advanced concepts, but not so many that interest wanes. My 4 year old son has asked to read this one several times, in contrast to the map one. However, we skip the page with the "helpful" sentence to remember the names of the planets in the right order. Surely the author could have come up with a better line?!? Too long, too weird, too complicated. I think my son finds it easier to just remember the names of the planets. But maybe that's just because he's only four.
Oh, I guess we have the older version, with Pluto still having planet status. Didn't they reverse that decision? I'm losing track, but I think they're calling it a dwarf planet now, no?
July 13, 2011
My 6 year old son is an early-reader, and he read this one on his own (with little help from me). I'm so proud of him!!! What kid doesn't like Dr. Seuss or space, right!? It kept him engaged the whole time, and is brightly illustrated.
I personally am not a fan of the ghostwriter, or any ghostwriter for that matter. Ghostwriting cheapens the true authors legacy. This new series is also not nearly as good as the originals. It still makes for a good read though. I don't think the young one's will be able to see the difference like we can.
I personally am not a fan of the ghostwriter, or any ghostwriter for that matter. Ghostwriting cheapens the true authors legacy. This new series is also not nearly as good as the originals. It still makes for a good read though. I don't think the young one's will be able to see the difference like we can.
November 19, 2010
This is one of those newer Cat In The Hat Books that aren't written by Dr Suess himself but that we enjoy very much anyway. The pictures are wonderful and the writing is in that same sing song rhyming style that we already associate with the Cat. My son went around quoting from the book the rest of the day and enjoyed it very much it seems. I would recommend it for the AVERAGE everyday ordinary 2nd grader.
September 15, 2015
I love that I could incorporate this book with a social studies lessons about the solar system. The book gives a brief description about each planet, constellations and the sun. There is even a riddle included to help young students remember the names of the planets. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars was because it does not include Pluto as a planet and I know this is constantly being debated.
August 10, 2021
Read it like a thousand times for my cousin (he’s obsessed with really everything about space 🥵) but I actually enjoyed it a lot tho, it was pretty goods, si mean everything that has rhymes makes me fall in love 🦭
June 13, 2016
I love this book because I am having my own space camp this week.
November 30, 2017
A great book that teaches children all about space! Good rhyming words and pictures! A favourite for sure!
July 10, 2019
A nice simple read about the solar system.
May 22, 2024
i’ve read this book to 2-4 year olds 10 times in the past month and i want to claw my eyes out everytime they ask me to read it to them again
July 15, 2024
They rhymes were fun
October 23, 2024
NO PLUTO BOOOOOOO
April 11, 2025
Should’ve been 5 stars, but they redacted all mention of Pluto 😡
January 28, 2025
I liked it but where’s Pluto?
March 7, 2021
Here's another children's book scheduled to be sent out-of-state shortly, to a little guy who loves to be read to by his mom. After this one, only one more to go, and I can start rating & reviewing the 5 adult-level books I've read since January, as well as the excellent YA book of short stories. But to get to this book's review: it's one of "The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library" editions put out by Random House - this one titled THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE SPACE (ALL ABOUT OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: (REVISED EDITION) by Tish Rabe, illustrated by Aristides Ruiz.
This is a truly short review because I think that almost everyone can imagine the Dr. Seuss type of book that addresses real things and issues in silly-seeming verse, along with illustrations that are fun. The Cat in the Hat takes a couple of kids on a trip around the Universe, once he tells them that "There is no place like space./ I will prove it to you./ Your mother will/ not mind at all if I do." And they learn, just as the child who experiences the book does!
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE SPACE by Tish Rabe was even fun for me to read, old as I am - 5-stars' worth - which is the 5-out-of-5 rating I'm giving it!
This is a truly short review because I think that almost everyone can imagine the Dr. Seuss type of book that addresses real things and issues in silly-seeming verse, along with illustrations that are fun. The Cat in the Hat takes a couple of kids on a trip around the Universe, once he tells them that "There is no place like space./ I will prove it to you./ Your mother will/ not mind at all if I do." And they learn, just as the child who experiences the book does!
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE SPACE by Tish Rabe was even fun for me to read, old as I am - 5-stars' worth - which is the 5-out-of-5 rating I'm giving it!
April 12, 2019
As a Seuss purist, I’ve always had an aversion to these Cat in the Hat appropriations. The Cat in the Hat is a rebel and a disrupter, not a chipper, watered-down Ms. Frizzle. But my son got this book for his birthday, so I thought, eh, FINE, I’ll read it to him and give a try, I’m sure it will have fun space facts and be maybe okay.
No. No. No.
First of all, if you’re going to touch Seuss and you can’t get basic rhyming rhythm, GET OUT. Seussian rhymes flow like Evian on tap. I stumbled over these badly constructed rhythms constantly.
Second, the stilted rhyming structure masked the facts and made it very confusing.
Third, the whimsical parts were delivered in the same manner as the “facts,” so it made everything about space seem like a big crazy joke. No way for kids to tell what’s real and what’s play.
I shuddered throughout. Never again. NEVER AGAIN. SEUSS FOREVER.
No. No. No.
First of all, if you’re going to touch Seuss and you can’t get basic rhyming rhythm, GET OUT. Seussian rhymes flow like Evian on tap. I stumbled over these badly constructed rhythms constantly.
Second, the stilted rhyming structure masked the facts and made it very confusing.
Third, the whimsical parts were delivered in the same manner as the “facts,” so it made everything about space seem like a big crazy joke. No way for kids to tell what’s real and what’s play.
I shuddered throughout. Never again. NEVER AGAIN. SEUSS FOREVER.
October 15, 2020
The book itself is nothing less of educational. This sequel of "The Cat in the Hat" involves the cat, of course, and the two children that are included in the original story. The cat takes the children out to space to learn about the eight planets. Yes, this is a revised version from the 2006 discovery. The information included about the eight planets is very descriptive. Mars is described as "dusty"... Saturn is described as "light in weight" and so on. Not only does the book list the eight planets, but includes the information for each one that gives kids an idea of the characteristics of each planet. I love the poetry included in the book to make it fun to read. It is very educational for young children, especially those learning about astronomy.
October 1, 2021
I'm not a Dr. Seuss fan. I actually don't like the rhyming and I find it all just annoying. However, I need to read as many books as there are days in each month and this would obviously help me accomplish that so I just decided to read it. I'm not sure why anyone is into rhyming so much. I find it dumb. Just talk like a normal person!
Anyway, I was not into this story, as much as I love astronomy. I get that this is just a book to teach kids about the planets and all but I found it just as dumb as the rhymes. Maybe it's just me but I would not recommend this book to a child. There are better ways to teach your kid about the planets. Go find those better ways and use those instead of this book.
Anyway, I was not into this story, as much as I love astronomy. I get that this is just a book to teach kids about the planets and all but I found it just as dumb as the rhymes. Maybe it's just me but I would not recommend this book to a child. There are better ways to teach your kid about the planets. Go find those better ways and use those instead of this book.
June 13, 2017
This was a great rhyming book for learning about space. The book was full of information for students to learn about our planets along with keeping them entertained with the pictures and rhyming lines. It listed the planets, talked about the stars, the sun, and the moon. It also had a glossary in the back with words from the story.
I would use this book for science and also to teach rhyme in poetry. This book is great for Pre-k to 1st. There's no place like space is a great way to introduce poetry in the classroom.
I would use this book for science and also to teach rhyme in poetry. This book is great for Pre-k to 1st. There's no place like space is a great way to introduce poetry in the classroom.
August 16, 2017
I must confess -- I like rhythm and rhyme, and this Seuss-inspired book would have been an absolute favorite of mine if it had existed when I was growing up in the 1970s. With delightful illustrations, funtastic rhyme schemes, and fact-filled narration, this book was a pleasure to read. It will definitely spark curiosity about the Solar System in its young readers -- and grown-up readers will enjoy the whimsical edutainment provided by both words and pictures. Highly recommended for beginning readers -- and for younger children who enjoy being read to!
June 14, 2017
This is a great rhyming book. I enjoy reading this book to my class because it teaches children about our solar system . I would recommend this book to beginning readers because it keeps them engaged through the great riddle that helps children to learn their planets. The Illustrations are absolutely amazing also. so I recommend all pre k teachers to get this newly Dr Seuss book for their class trust me they will love it .
December 26, 2019
This is a great book about space even though it leaves Pluto off the list of planets. I don't know that I'll ever be able to learn a planet remembering song that doesn't begin with "My Very Educated Mother..." but the 8 planet version in this book is acceptable. Great illustrations and rhymes I'm the style of Dr. Seuss make for a book that I'll be happy to read time and time again with my near five year old son.
April 25, 2020
There no Place Like space is an educational rhyming Dr.Seuss classic. It makes learning all about space, planets, and the solar system fun. It includes all of the basic facts kids need to know when it comes to earth, and sun, and plenty of other planets in the solar system. It also includes a few pages about the night sky and stars. I never read this as a child, but not reading it makes me wish I did. Dr.Seuss books are classics, and this one goes over the top.
June 9, 2020
Genre: Informational/Poetry
Grade Level: Early Primary/Primary (K-3)
This book is a part of the series from the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library. I love anything and everything about the Cat in the Hat! Dr. Seuss (Theodore Gisel) is my favorite author! This book is written in his unique style of fun and rhymes with The Cat, Thing 1 & Thing 2. It is easy to read and understand with great information about the Solar System. Fun for all ages!
Grade Level: Early Primary/Primary (K-3)
This book is a part of the series from the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library. I love anything and everything about the Cat in the Hat! Dr. Seuss (Theodore Gisel) is my favorite author! This book is written in his unique style of fun and rhymes with The Cat, Thing 1 & Thing 2. It is easy to read and understand with great information about the Solar System. Fun for all ages!
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