There's a Babirusa in my Bathtub! announced as a 2009 Book of the Year Award (Silver) winner by Foreword Reviews.
Sandy Fuller is the co-author of The BLUES Go Birding Series. She has worn many hats during her career in children’s book publishing, which began 35 years ago as a student of Maurice Sendak.
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Today’s children – the generation that may put a colony on Mars – will grow up knowing that Earth, Mars and the other planets are part of a “family of planets,” in a “neighborhood” that circles the Sun. The books they grow up with, such as Going Around the Sun: Some Planetary Fun, take that kind of perspective in stride.
As a former director of children’s theater as well as a former teacher and librarian, Marianne Berkes has just the aptitude to pull off a book about astronomy that is both entertaining and informative. To the tune of the old ballad “Over in the Meadow,” children count the planets, learn their names, and discover some amazing things about them. Jupiter for instance, is “A gigantic ball of gas/ Here is planet number five.” A ball of gas? Yes, that’s right!