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, and island, innovative, Coral Reefs, Redwoods, Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, 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 Roaring Brook Press.
Island: A Story of the Galápagos
Chin's approach makes this book a must-have common core tool for teachers and librarians introducing scientific principals to young students. Island is one of kirkus Reviews' Best Children's Books of 2012. Charles darwin first visited the galápagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth.
How did they come to inhabit the island? how long will they remain? thoroughly researched and filled with intricate and beautiful paintings, its decline, this extraordinary book by Award-winning author and artist Jason Chin is an epic saga of the life of an island―born of fire, rising to greatness, and finally the emergence of life on new islands.
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Grand Canyon
Complete with a spectacular double gatefold, an intricate map and extensive back matter. Roaring brook. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through the cavernous wonder, discovering life both present and past. Rivers wind through earth, 18 miles wide, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon.
Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Weave in and out of time as perfectly placed die cuts show you that a fossil today was a creature much long ago, perhaps in a completely different environment.
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Redwoods
Square Fish. Chin's approach makes Redwoods a must-have common core tool for teachers and librarians introducing scientific principals to young students. As he reads the information unfolds, and with each new bit of knowledge, he travels―all the way to California to climb into the Redwood canopy. Crammed with interesting and accurate information about these great natural wonders, Jason Chin's first book is innovative nonfiction set within a strong and beautiful picture storybook.
Roaring brook. A ordinary subway trip is transformed when a young boy happens upon a book about redwood forests.
Coral Reefs: A Journey Through an Aquatic World Full of Wonder
Readers will experience the ocean like they never have before in this stunning picture book full of breathtaking illustrations. Chin's approach makes this book a must-have common core tool for teachers and librarians introducing scientific principals to young students. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, hunt, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, and hide there.
Coral reefs by jason chin plunges readers into the ocean with incredible facts about fish, coral reefs and marine life. Square Fish. During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. Roaring brook. Melia publishing services.
Water Is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle
Watch it curl by. Steam is steam unless. It cools high. This spare, poetic picture book follows a group of kids as they move through all the different phases of the water cycle. Sip. Roaring Brook Press. Pour me a cup. Roaring brook. Drip. Square Fish. Water is water unless. It heats up. Whirl. From rain to fog to snow to mist, talented author miranda Paul and the always remarkable Jason Chin Redwoods, Island, Coral Reefs, Gravity combine to create a beautiful and informative journey in this innovative nonfiction picture book that will leave you thirsty for more.
Swirl. Melia publishing services.
Coral Reefs: A Journey Through an Aquatic World Full of Wonder
As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there. Chin's approach makes this book a must-have common core tool for teachers and librarians introducing scientific principals to young students.
Roaring brook. Melia publishing services. During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. Square Fish. Roaring Brook Press.
Gravity Is a Mystery Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2
Nobody can say exactly what it is, but gravity is there, pulling on everything, all the time. Collins Publishers. With the help of an adventurous scientist and his fun-loving dog, you can read and find out about this mysterious force. Roaring Brook Press. Melia publishing services. Roaring brook. But what is it that pulls everything from rocks to rockets toward the center of the earth? It's gravity.
Everybody knows that. Square Fish. What goes up must come down.
Redwoods
Crammed with interesting and accurate information about these great natural wonders, Jason Chin's first book is innovative nonfiction set within a strong and beautiful picture storybook. Square Fish. Roaring Brook Press. Collins Publishers. As he reads the information unfolds, and with each new bit of knowledge, he travels--all the way to California to climb into the Redwood canopy.
Roaring brook. Chin's approach makes Redwoods a must-have common core tool for teachers and librarians introducing scientific principals to young students. Melia publishing services. An ordinary train ride becomes and extraordinary trip to the great ancient forests A subway trip is transformed when a young boy happens upon a book about redwood forests.
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Forces Make Things Move Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2
Collins Publishers. Melia publishing services. Want to learn more about the forces around you? Read and find out! Roaring brook. There are forces at work whenever you throw a ball, run up the stairs, or push your big brotheroff the couch. Roaring Brook Press. HarperTrophy. Square Fish.
The Day Gravity Goes Loco
The day gravity goes loco” is a fun reminder that, even if your world has been flipped upside down, having the right attitude will help you fly through anything. Square Fish. What would happen if gravity faded away? would juice rise from your cup? Would the animals at the zoo lift off of the ground? What if your house began to float into space? “Tie it down with a shoe lace, ” of course.
Roaring brook. HarperTrophy. Roaring Brook Press. From standing straight up hairstyles, to construction crews taking vacations because of upside down cranes, “Gravity Loco” is an infectious story that will make kids laugh while introducing them to language learning and science concepts. Collins Publishers.
. Melia publishing services. The day gravity goes loco” paints a picture of a weightless world where everything usually anchored down by gravity, has gone crazy.
