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Franklyn M. Branley (1915–2002)

Author of The Planets in Our Solar System

Includes the names: Franklin Branley, Franklyn Branley, Franklyn Branley, Franklin M. Branley, Franklyn M. Branley, Franklyn M. Branley, Franklyn M. Branley, Frankyln M. Branley, Franklyn Ma Branley, Franklin M. Branley ... (see complete list), Dr. Franklyn M. Branley, Franklyn Mansfield Branley

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Works by Franklyn M. Branley
The Planets in Our Solar System 1,348 copies, 9 reviews
What Makes Day and Night? 1,328 copies, 16 reviews
Down Comes the Rain 1,212 copies, 23 reviews
Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll 1,153 copies, 17 reviews
What Makes a Magnet? 960 copies, 10 reviews
Snow is Falling 907 copies, 6 reviews
Sunshine Makes the Seasons 905 copies, 13 reviews
The Moon Seems to Change 845 copies, 6 reviews
The Big Dipper 816 copies, 4 reviews
Air is All Around You 687 copies, 8 reviews
Earthquakes 566 copies, 1 review
What the Moon Is Like 558 copies, 9 reviews
The Sky Is Full of Stars 522 copies, 1 review
The Sun: Our Nearest Star (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out) 499 copies, 8 reviews
Volcanoes 454 copies, 6 reviews
Is There Life in Outer Space? 432 copies, 3 reviews
Tornado Alert 405 copies, 6 reviews
Gravity Is a Mystery 385 copies, 6 reviews
Mickey's Magnet 337 copies, 1 review
Floating in Space 337 copies, 4 reviews
Day Light, Night Light 295 copies
What Happened to the Dinosaurs? 228 copies, 1 review
The International Space Station 203 copies
Mission to Mars 199 copies, 1 review
Eclipse: Darkness in Daytime 195 copies, 1 review
Hurricane Watch 153 copies, 5 reviews
Oxygen Keeps You Alive 130 copies
Floating and Sinking 124 copies
Shooting Stars 114 copies
Rain and Hail 114 copies
Big Tracks, Little Tracks 100 copies
Journey into a Black Hole 95 copies, 1 review
A Book of Planets for You 69 copies
Comets 68 copies, 1 review
The Christmas Sky 68 copies, 1 review
Rockets and Satellites 67 copies, 1 review
Think Metric! 46 copies, 1 review
The Beginning of the Earth 43 copies
North, South, East, and West 42 copies
A book of satellites for you 41 copies, 1 review
Measure With Metric 35 copies, 1 review
High Sounds Low Sounds 34 copies
Weight and Weightlessness 32 copies, 2 reviews
The Mystery of Stonehenge 31 copies
It's Raining Cats and Dogs: All Kinds of Weather, and Why We Have It 30 copies, 1 review
Keeping Time: From the Beginning and into the 21st Century 27 copies
How Little and How Much: A Book About Scales 24 copies
Experiments with a Microscope 22 copies
Experiments in Optical Illusion 21 copies
The Nine Planets (Exploring Our Universe) 19 copies
Experiments in science 19 copies
Sun Dogs and Shooting Stars: A Skywatcher's Calendar 18 copies
Venus: Magellan Explores Our Twin Planet 17 copies, 1 review
Roots Are Food Finders 17 copies
Experiments with light (Joint Author.) 16 copies
The moon: Jack and Jill and other legends (A Magic circle book) 15 copies, 1 review
A Book of the Milky Way Galaxy for You 14 copies
A book of flying saucers for you, 14 copies, 1 review
A Book of Stars for You 14 copies
Experiments in sky watching 14 copies
From Sputnik to Space Shuttles: Into the Space Age 13 copies
The Moon 13 copies
Saturn: The Spectacular Planet 13 copies
A Book of Mars for You 13 copies
Space Telescope 12 copies
Age of Aquarius: You and astrology 12 copies
Experiments in chemistry 12 copies
Neptune: Voyager's Final Target 12 copies
Exploration of the moon 11 copies
Lodestar - Rocket Ship To Mars: The Record of the First Operation… 11 copies
Uranus : the seventh planet 11 copies, 1 review
A Book of Moon Rockets for You 11 copies
A book of astronauts for you 10 copies
Jupiter: King of the Gods, Giant of the Planets 10 copies
Timmy And The Tin Can Telephone 10 copies
Color, from Rainbows to Lasers 9 copies
Shivers and goose bumps : how we keep warm 9 copies
Rusty Rings a Bell 9 copies
Sun And The Solar System (Secrets of Space) 8 copies
A Book of Venus for You 8 copies
Experiments in the Principles of Space Travel 7 copies
Halley: Comet 1986 7 copies, 1 review
The Milky Way: Galaxy Number One 7 copies
Solar Energy 7 copies
Pieces of another world;: The story of moon rocks, 7 copies
Water for the World 7 copies
Experiments with atomics (Joint Author.) 7 copies
A Book of Outer Space for You 7 copies
Astronomy 7 copies
Space Colony 6 copies
Man in Space to the Moon 6 copies
The Mysteries of the Universe 6 copies, 1 review
The sun: star number one 6 copies
Experiments with Electricity 6 copies
Black holes, white dwarfs, and superstars 6 copies
Light and darkness 6 copies
Dinosaurs, Asteroids and Superstars: Why the Dinosaurs Disappeared 6 copies
Columbia and Beyond: The Story of the Space Shuttle 6 copies
The earth, planet number three 5 copies
The Mysteries of Planets (Mysteries of the universe series) 5 copies, 1 review
Feast or famine? : The energy future 5 copies
The end of the world 5 copies
Comets, meteoroids, and asteroids: Mavericks of the solar system,… 5 copies
Star Guide 5 copies
Superstar: The Supernova of 1987 5 copies
Shakes, quakes, and shifts: earth tectonics 4 copies
The Mysteries of Planet Earth 4 copies
Mars: Planet Number Four 3 copies
Reader's Digest Science Reader Green Book. 1963. 3 copies
The great moon hoax (A Magic circle book) 3 copies
Portrait of the Universe 3 copies
The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Key to the Universe (Ready-To-Read) 2 copies
Exploring by satellite;: The story of Project Vanguard 2 copies
Energy for the 21st Century 2 copies
More Experiments in Science 2 copies
Guide to outer space 2 copies
Exploring by Astronaut: The Story of Project Mercury 2 copies
The Mysteries of Outer Space (Mysteries of the Universe Series) 2 copies
Experiments with airplane instruments 1 copy
The sun 1 copy
Apollo and the moon 1 copy
Scientists' Choice - A Portfolio of Photographs in Science 1 copy
Set of 8 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science and Math Books, Stages 1-2… 1 copy
Rosa Parks: Fight for Freedom 1 copy
Reader's Digest Science Reader 1 copy
Reader's Digest Science Reader Red Book 1 copy
The physical world (Science horizons) 1 copy
The planets and their satellites 1 copy
Reader's Digest Science Reader Orange Book 1 copy
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Canonical name
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Branley, Franklyn Mansfield
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Date of birth
1915-06-05
Date of death
2002-05-05
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Gender
male
Nationality
USA
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Birthplace
New Rochelle, New York, USA
Place of death
Brunswick, Maine, USA
Cause of death
Places of residence
Education
New York University
Columbia University (Teacher's College)
Occupations
astronomer
teacher
children's book author
Relationships
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Organizations
Hayden Planetarium
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Short biography
He began the Read-and-Find- Out series of science books for young children.
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