Author: Margaret Armand-SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780957056602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
One Sun, One Moon, Two Stars
Author: Margaret Armand-SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780957056602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
One Sun and Countless Stars
Author: Hena KhanPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1797201794
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Counting and culture come together in this stunning companion to Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns. From one sun to countless stars, this gentle introduction to numbers also celebrates the many diverse traditions of the Muslim world, encouraging readers young and old to reflect upon—and count—their many blessings. Like Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns and Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets, this latest offering in the Concepts of the Muslim World series has stunning illustrations, rhyming read-aloud text, and informative back matter, and it is equally at home in the classroom or being read on a parent's lap. HENA KHAN'S AWARD-WINNING BOOKS: Hena Khan's picture books have garnered numerous awards: Parents' Choice Recommended Seal, Booklist Top 10 Religion Book for Youth, and Chicago Public Library Best Book, among many others. MUSLIM TALENT: Created by a Muslim Pakistani American author and a Muslim Pakistani British illustrator, this book reflects their shared experiences and vision. NUMBERS & COUNTING: It's a perfect introduction to counting and numbers! Children will delight in counting the items in the illustrations on each spread along the with the satisfying rhyme of the text. BACK MATTER: The back matter includes a comprehensive glossary and an author's note, making this a great classroom book! Perfect for: • Anyone looking for picture books to teach religious literacy and/or about Islam • Muslim parents and grandparents looking for picture books that reflect their culture/faith • Fans of previous books in the series, Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns and Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets • Anyone looking for picture books to build early counting and number proficiency
Sun, Moon and Stars
Author: Stephanie TurnbullPublisher:
ISBN: 9780746055847
Category : Solar system
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This exploration of the sun, moon and stars is part of a series introducing children to the wonder of the world around them. It has two reading levels, with a simple sentence on each page for beginners, accompanied by more complex information which can be read as the child's ability grows.
Many Skies
Author: Arthur UpgrenPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813553563
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
What if Earth had several moons or massive rings like Saturn? What if the Sun were but one star in a double-star or triple-star system? What if Earth were the only planet circling the Sun? These and other imaginative scenarios are the subject of Arthur Upgren's inventive book Many Skies: Alternative Histories of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Stars. Although the night sky as we know it seems eternal and inevitable, Upgren reminds us that, just as easily, it could have been very different. Had the solar sytem happened to be in the midst of a star cluster, we might have many more bright stars in the sky. Yet had it been located beyond the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, we might have no stars at all. If Venus or Mars had a moon as large as ours, we would be able to view it easily with the unaided eye. Given these or other alternative skies, what might Ptolemy or Copernicus have concluded about the center of the solar sytem and the Sun? This book not only examines the changes in science that these alternative solar, stellar, and galactic arrangements would have brought, it also explores the different theologies, astrologies, and methods of tracking time that would have developed to reflect them. Our perception of our surroundings, the number of gods we worship, the symbols we use in art and literature, even the way we form nations and empires are all closely tied to our particular (and accidental) placement in the universe. Many Skies, however, is not merely a fanciful play on what might have been. Upgren also explores the actual ways that human interferences such as light pollution are changing the night sky. Our atmosphere, he warns, will appear very different if we have belt of debris circling the globe and blotting out the stars, as will happen if advertisers one day pollute space with brilliant satellites displaying their products. From fanciful to foreboding, the scenarios in Many Skies will both delight and inspire reflection, reminding us that ours is but one of many worldviews based on our experience of a universe that is as much a product of accident as it is of intention.
Sun, Moon, and Stars
Author: Mary HoffmanPublisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN: 9780525460046
Category : Mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discusses the stories which people from the ancient world told to explain their understanding of what they could see in the sky.
Tales about the Sun, Moon, and Stars
Author: Samuel Griswold GoodrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Tales about the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Comets
Author: Peter Parley (pseud. [i.e. Samuel Griswold Goodrich.])Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Zeus
Author: Arthur Bernard CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Tales about the sun, moon, and stars
Author: Peter Parley (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Tales about the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Comets
Author: Peter ParleyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375017820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.