What Is the Sun? - Reeve Lindbergh

Advantages: Simple questions and answer book
Disadvantages: None

What is the sun? This is one of those story books I read in answer to the hundreds of questions asked by young children. We have been looking at springtime and the sun at school (not a lot of sunshine yet but it does tend to go with spring!) and naturally the children asked what the sun was. This book is basically a series of questions asked by a young boy as he is getting into bed and watching the setting sun. The first questions he asks is "What ...
...is a star". This sparks of a whole range of questions from the sun to the moon to the tides, to wind, to winter, to the rain, the flowers and trees and then to the earth The series of questions lead seamlessly on to each other because they are related in some way, and the end is kind of a summary of all the questions and answers the little boy asks. His mum tells him that the earth is our home,and it's a big ball which has the sun, the moon, the ... Read review