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    Gravity

    By Jason Chin

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    About this ebook

    What keeps objects from floating out of your hand?
    What if your feet drifted away from the ground?
    What stops everything from floating into space?
    Gravity.

    As in his previous books, Redwoods, Coral Reefs, and Island, Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.

    Chin's approach makes this book a must-have common core tool for teachers and librarians introducing scientific principals to young students.

    A Neal Porter Book

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 29, 2014
    ISBN9781466868038
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    Gravity
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    Jason Chin

    Jason Chin is the author and artist of the award-winning book Redwoods, which Kirkus Reviews called, “An inventive eye-opening adventure.” His work also includes illustrations for Simon Winchester's The Day the World Exploded. He and his wife Deirdre, also an artist, live in Vermont.

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    • 4/5
      Illustrations: acrylic paint. This book is about how gravity works and how important it is for our survival. It discusses what gravity does to all the planets and how it allows things to fall and not just float in the air. It tells its readers that gravity is the invisible force that causes objects to attract each other. This book is science fiction because it creates a relationship with the principles of science—it involved partially true, partially fictitious laws or theories of science. Age appropriateness: intermediate
    • 4/5
      Gravity is an informational book about gravity. It's illustrated with pictures of the earth and has very few words until the last page, where it has a bunch of additional facts. Great book for a science lesson for 2nd or 3rd graders!
    • 5/5
      This story was very creative and written for a younger child to understand the concept of gravity and how it works. In the back of the book was information pertaining to the more scientific approach to explain why and what would happen if there were no gravity. This could help teach a science unit over gravity almost in itself. Jayson Chin has some great resources to go along with it as well.
    • 4/5
      The story explains what gravity does and what would happen without gravity. It starts off explaining one thing and then explains another and then comes back to the first example. It would be a good book to introduce this science unit.
    • 3/5
      Jason Chin explains clearly and elegantly the concept of gravity to the reader. His narration walks us through what this force is and what it can do. The examples are funny.The author is also the illustrator and his pictures are fantastic. They're really attractive in a way that adds engagement with a challenging topic that might otherwise be inaccessible.
    • 4/5
      Author/artist Jason Chin, whose many wonderful works of picture-book natural history include Redwoods, Coral Reefs and the recent Grand Canyon, explores the scientific concept of gravity here. In simple text, he sets out the importance of gravity, not just in keeping objects (and atmosphere!) tethered to our world, but in keeping our world revolving around the sun, and our moon orbiting us. The accompanying artwork is immensely engaging, vividly capturing the beauty of the cosmos, and the magic of flying objects liberated (in theory) from gravity.With no more than a word or two per page, Gravity is not a text-heavy book, and focuses more on emphasizing the central importance of gravity, rather than exploring what it is. There is an informative afterword that provides more details, but overall I would say that this was a title suitable for much younger children, who might upon occasion ask something like: "why does everything fall down, instead of floating away?" Gravity itself is not something we completely understand yet, a reality that Franklyn Mansfield Branley highlighted in his own picture-book about the subject, Gravity Is a Mystery. For parents and educators looking to teach younger children about this subject, I would recommend combining these two books, as the Chin title offers an imaginative introduction, and the Branley a more scientific approach.
    • 4/5
      A fun book with lively and detailed illustrations. Suitable for quite young children with only a few words on each page. There are some images of children in the book; they have a well illustrated diversity of ethnicities. The book is cleverly self-referential, it is one of the many falling objects that appear on its own pages.There is a one page spread at the back with an explanation of gravity suitable for an older audience.
    • 4/5
      Gravity makes things fall to earth. It is that simple, and so is this book. It works well as an introduction to the topic, and the info bits in the back are perfect for expanding on the concept.
    • 3/5
      a simplistic and fun way of describing what the earth would be like without gravity.
    • 4/5
      What lovely picture and informative end pages. This is a nice way to introduce a complex subject in a simple manner that children will understand.
    • 5/5
      Like evolution, gravity is "just a theory" but, as this book wonderfully illustrates, the universe would be quite a mess without it.
    • 5/5
      I gave this book 5 stars for the rich creamy illustrations and the scientific text. This book brings the subject of gravity down to a level that elementary students can understand and enjoy. I plan to purchase this book and use it during a science lesson.
    • 2/5
      I was pleasantly surprised by this book! The text is very short, but powerful! The illustrations really add to the meaning and strength of the message. I can see using this book with both primary and intermediate students. This book would be a great book to start with for a unit with older students. I think sometimes intermediate teachers tend to downplay the power that picture books could have on their lessons and their students. This is also a great book to use to explore learning through illustrations.
    • 5/5
      The illustration is so strong in this book a non-reader could picture read it and still understand the basics of gravity. Would love to add this one to my collection in the classroom.
    • 5/5
      Summary: A concept book about gravity, presenting the information in understandable language. Personal reflection: Like the simple large text and illustrationclassroom use: yes for grades 2-5
    • 4/5
      I really like this science related book. I t is easy to read, and not each page has a sentence, which is different. It is factual, and gives basic information about gravity. I think that children will really take to this book and the illustrations.
    • 5/5
      This is a wonderful super easy and fun story about Gravity. Even though the book is very easy to read, it does a great job explaining the meaning and purpose of gravity. The illustrations are amazing and have a great deal of meaning since they help tell the story. I think this is a great science lesson introduction.
    • 4/5
      Gravity makes objects fall in our Earth that is why we are able to walk. If not everything would be floating around. This book shows you the importance of gravity in a fun way. This is a fun book to show children in a science class about how gravity works and why we need it. Plus the illustration of the book is very cute.
    • 3/5
      Probably best for elementary age kids.
    • 4/5
      Thank goodness for savvy reviewers who help glib readers see things they wouldn't otherwise see -- the floating detritus of a lemonade stand are introduced early in the book; only later do we see the stunned kids who are the owners of said lemonade stand. helping us to visualize and think about what would a world be like without gravity.
    • 3/5
      Read on June 03, 2014Wow. Talk about simplifying gravity and making it easy to understand. I felt smarter after finishing this one. ;-)