An illustrated afterword provides additional explanations of mass, matter, and force. Author Jason Chin takes this complex subject and makes it brilliantly accessible to young listeners in this innovative book. In his embrace of the wild possibilities of a world without gravity, Chin outdoes himself. In Your Place in the Universe, Jason Chin zoomed outward, from our planet, solar system, and galaxy to the outer reaches of the observable universe. Chin does some David Wiesner style visual punning as the pages of the boy's book illustrated with paintings of a massive, fiery sun exerting force on a tiny Earth and moon do double duty as both an object affected by gravity and an explanation of how it works. Jason Chin, winner of the Caldecott Medal for Watercress, dives into the microscopic building blocks of life in this companion to the award-winning Your Place in the Universe. The next page shows the whole lot drifting upward like a tide of debris into space. The all-caps text reads like a series of booming declarations: "Without gravity, everything would float away." On cue, the boy, his spaceman doll and rocket, and the very grains of sand on the beach lift slowly off the ground. A boy playing at the beach is startled when a book a copy of this book, alert readers will note falls from the sky and lands in front of him. Chin (Island) takes his exceptional artistic gifts into outer space, painting with disciplined exuberance a series of spreads that explain the fundamentals of gravity.
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