Postcards from Pluto: A Tour of the Solar System

A friendly robot takes a group of children on a tour of the solar system. Each page focuses on a different part of the solar system; a child-written post card from each stop along the tour ties the story together. A mini-glossary [on a postcard] gives readers some basic space vocabulary.

Older readers will appreciate the play on words in the addresses of each of the postcards: the card from sun sent to Mr. and Mrs. Sol Corona; Venus’s card goes to Debbie DeMilo; the moon’s card goes to Luna Cee; Mars’s card goes to Mr. Martin Greenman. Readers will have fun checking out the destination for each postcard.

Fact-filled and charmingly illustrated, readers interested in space science will find much to appreciate in this book [written show more before Pluto’s demotion to dwarf planet status].

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This book is a very kid friendly and interactive childrens book. It also doubles as a informational book. On every page in this book is a different postcard from a kid traveling the solar system in every planet. On every postcard is different informtional facts he observed while traveling around. I could use this book in my future classroom as a science lesson to teach students about the solar system. I could also use this book as a writing assignments to teach the kids to write on a postcard as it is more of an informal way to write.

Lots of fun, though even this 2006 "new" edition has errors and omissions (dwarf planets, Pluto's moons, number of planets.)

This book is about a class trip through outer space. The children are allowed to send postcards home telling about what they are seeing and learning while in outer space in a quirky way. Some of the children send back information in a poem, and some send back their postcards with quizzes. They all have a little bit of a different way to describe their trip.