Why Is Night Dark? (Usborne Starting Point Series)

Rating:
Summary: Skimpy. Best for children aged 2-5
Review: I felt this book is most appropriate for children aged 2-5. The concepts are very basic and are not enough content for a child of age 6 and older. The topics touched upon are things such as answering if the stars are there during the daytime and is there a man in the moon? The book does a good job in some parts of trying to explain some tricky ideas to young children, such as how the earth rotates and how we have day and night. However other areas are not thorough enough, such as showing only 3 phases of the moon, new, full and crescent.

I read this as the first book to a space unit, with my 6 year old. It was a great overview but we needed another book to go in depth more. My 3 year old got the gist of the content of this book. I just realized there is another book in the series called "What's out in space" which may have touched upon other space topics that were missing from this book.

I think this is best for the very young.

This is one in a series by Usborne called "starting point science". Some others in the series are "What makes it rain?" and "Why is night dark?".