Pieces of Another World

By Mara Rockliff; Salima Alikhan (Illustrator)
(Sylvan Dell Publishing, Paperback, 9781607181149, 32pp.)

Publication Date: March 2010

Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover

Categories: Family - General, Nature & the Natural World - General

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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" 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.

Pieces of Another World was vetted for scientific accuracy by the education department at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Facilities and has been endorsed by members of the American Meteor Association, the Miami Planetarium and the Von Braun Astronomical Society.

2006 NAIBA Picture Book of the Year nominee

2006 Texas Bluebonnet Reading Award nominee

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