Frank Carlson Library

In this completely updated edition of The Sun featuring beautiful full-color photographs, Seymour Simon presents a fascinating introduction to the star that is the center of our Solar System. Young readers will love exploring the wonders of the sun, from the constant nuclear explosions at its core to the sea of boiling gases that forms its surface. Seymour Simon knows how to explain science to kids and make it fun. He was a teacher for more than twenty...

Learn all about the sun, the closest star to Earth.

Introduces children to the subject of agriculture, showing not only how plants germinate, grow and produce food, but also about the composition of soil and the creatures who live in it.

Did you know that the Sun never stops working to keep things here on Earth running smoothly? (That's why it's been Employee of the Month for 4.5 billion years and counting.) Learn about the Sun's big job, from giving Earth day and night to keeping us warm, and much more.

"The sun explains its role in the movement of water around the Earth, from the lifting of fresh water from the seas, to the movement of underwater currents that nourish the world's oceans. The sun has a hand in moving rivers of water in its liquid, gaseous, and solid states all around the Earth, enabling life to exist on our planet. But human beings are interfering in this natural cycle, unbalancing the amount of fresh water available."--

Sylvie the cat persuades her boy to go into the darkness very late at night, where they are greeted by the shadows of roses and other flowers, and by nocturnal animals who whisper, "it's almost here.".

One day, bored little Fish journeys up to the surface of the ocean where it meets Sun, and a wonderful friendship blooms... Only, right in the middle of their fun, Sun starts to set!

After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world.

When Dog wakes up early, in the middle of the night, he launches all the other farm animals in a worried search for the missing sun.

"During Rachel and Kirsty's first night at Camp Stargaze, they notice that the sunset is ... green! Can they help Ava the Sunset Fairy set things right?"--Cover verso.