Solar System

This title, the latest in the science-based Kingfisher Young Knowledge series, introduces readers to the ever-popular topic of space and the amazing worlds that make up our solar system. Learn about the enormous Sun at the centre of the solar system, about the rock planets and huge gas giants that orbit it, and the other objects such as moons, comets and asteroids that inhabit its reaches. From lifeless craters on the Moon to the storms of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, readers will be fascinated to learn about the variety of places throughout our solar system and to see the photos beamed back from distant space probes. Fun projects such as making ice-cream comets, a bedroom planetarium, and observing the Moon in the night sky will allow children to investigate the subject for themselves.