What Makes Day and Night?

by Chris Arvetis

Other authorsJames Buckley (Illustrator)
1984

Status

Available

Call number

M 1 Astronomy Time

Publication

Checkerboard Press (1984)

Description

Explains in simple terms why there is night and day.

User reviews

LibraryThing member JenessaMorgan
What Makes Day and Night is one of my favorite informational books. It is a teacher who is an owl. The owl is explaining to all the other animals how the earth rotates the sun and the moon rotates the earth. I really like the illustrations of this book. It also contains an experiment to do with
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students and I just love that. It helps the students learn better when they can see it.
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LibraryThing member mduval7
What Makes Day and Night? is an informative book about the cycle of our days on earth and what makes day and night. I really enjoyed this book because of the language choice and characters that were used. The simplicity of the words used but still conveying meaning as well as repetition of key
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conceptual words really made this a strong book for me. For example when talking about orbit they had the characters repeat the word orbit and even broke it up into or-bit. The characters positive outlook towards learning and wanting to know more is also encouraging for the growth of the reader. Showing interest could help aid the reader wanting to learn more as well.
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Language

Original publication date

1984

Physical description

9 inches

Barcode

918
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