Sunday, March 16, 2008

Comets, Stars, the Moon and Mars by Douglas Florian

Grades: 3-6

Committee Annotation:
Imaginative collage illustrations complete with cut-outs, "I spy-like" details and snippets of photographs, book illustrations and charts complement Florian's lively poems. "A galactic glossary" adds to the fun facts with details spanning our Universe to "the great beyond."

Subjects: Poetry, outer space, planets, constellations, galaxies, black holes, comets, solar systems, collage, paintings

Author website: http://www.storybookart.com/meet_dflorian.html

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

I enjoyed this factual, informative book. The poetry format made it fun and enjoyable to read. It was short, easy and quick. The illustrations were vivid. If you like science, want a fast read and want to increase your space knowledge, you'll want to read this book.
Janet R. Grade 5 James Eldredge EG

Anonymous said...

I loved this book! I liked this book because the book was like a poem and i love poems. I also love the illustrations. I think it was my favorite book so far!


Brittany R.
Grade 5
Eden Park

Anonymous said...

I loved this book because it was like a poem book. I also liked it because it had great pictures.

Brittany R.
grade 5
eden park

Anonymous said...

I loved this book it was so interesting!! I loved the pictures in this book! It was a good choice for The Childrens Book Awards! I think it should win the Childrens Book Awards!!!!


Danielle A.
Eden Park School

Anonymous said...

Comets,Stars,the Moon and Mars was terrible.It was bad because it rhymmed and all it did was list your planets.

A.M.
grade 4
Tiogue School

Anonymous said...

This book is a fact book. It tells you interesting facts like how a comet makes it way around space. Also it tells you how Mars is very hot and how the moon travels during the night. The stars are so bright. Up close stars are really yellow. You should go buy this book.

G.C.
grade 4
Tiogue School

Anonymous said...

The best book in the world is Comets,Stars,the Moon,and Mars. It's about Comets, Stars,the Moon, and Mars in POEM VERSION. In the book the drawings are cut out! If you like poems and Outer Space this is the book for you!

C.E
GRADE 4
TIOGUE SCHOOL

Anonymous said...

I would give Comets, Stars, The Moon And Mars three thumbs up. You should read it if you like poems and Comets,Stars, The Moon and Mars. T.W.
GRADE 4
TIOGUE SCHOOL

Anonymous said...

Comets,stars,the moon and Mars is a very intresting book.I recommend this book to third graders.This book has ingenious rhymes and facts. You can find out lots of things about space but still have fun reading it.This book gets a 4 star rating.
TF
grade4
Tiogue School

Anonymous said...

Comets, Stars, The Moon, and Mars was not a very good book. It rhymes and is mostly for little kids. If you are over 4 years old I would not read it.
M.L.
grade 4
Tiogue School
Coventry R.I.

Unknown said...

In the story,Coments,stars,the moon and mars,I like this book because the author put great poems and the illustrator put good details

Anonymous said...

This book is about outer space poems. My favorite part is the poem about the black hole because it makes a black hole sound like it is happening now. My least favorite part is the poem of Mars because it sounds like they are making fun of Mars. This book is good because the poems are fun to hear.

Luis S.
grade 5
Maisie Quinn Elem.
West Warwick

Anonymous said...

This book is about the whole solar system. It tells you about black holes and is a poetry book. My favorite part was the way it rhymes. In my opinion, this book is pretty cool. The pictures matched the poems and helped me to understand what the poems were all about.

Joe G.
grade 5
Maisie Quinn Elem.
West Warwick

Anonymous said...

This book tells you poems about comets, stars, the moon and Mars. This book is excellent, especially if you like space, poetry, and science.

Matt R.
grade 5
Maisie Quinn Elem.
West Warwick

Anonymous said...

This book is about poems and planets. Our favorite poem was "Skywatch" and our least favorite was "the Universe". In our opinion, this was the best book we saw.

Steven and Christopher
grade 5
Maisie Quinn Elem.
West Warwick

Anonymous said...

Comets, Stars, the Moon and Mars is a great book for people who like science or poems. Each poem tells you about a planet or something in space. I really like the moon poem. It describes it as another planet.

Jason R.
grade 5
Maisie Quinn Elem.
West Warwick

Anonymous said...

This book is poems. My favorite is "Skywatch". I recommend this book to everybody in the school who likes poetry.

Blake
grade 5
Maisie Quinn Elem.
West Warwick

Anonymous said...

I loved reading Comets,Stars,the Moon and Mars because it was a fun way of learning about space.The pictures were amazing too.

H.M.
grade 4
Tiogue School
Covnetry, RI

Anonymous said...

I really liked this book I would vote it a 3 out of a five I really lked the great beyond.




Hampden Meadows Student

Anonymous said...

Comets Stars Moon and Mars is a good book for people who are intrested in Planets because it has poems about each planet and tells about them.some pictures even show different parts of the planets.It even tells you how some of the planets got started.The only thing is if you don't like poems don't read it.That is mostly what Comets Stars Moon and Mars is about.


Michaela W.
grade 5
Steere Farm Elementary School
Burriville
R.I

Anonymous said...

This book was okay. Not the best rooster book. I don't think poems are all that interesting though. It was really easy to read though. I read it in almost ten minutes. If you still need to read 12 books, and you haven't read Comet, Stars, the Moon and Mars, you should definetly read it.
Julie K.