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VENUS! The Hottest Planet.
Paperback
Series: Interesting Facts for Kids by Alex Ishikawa
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Meet Venus - the hottest, brightest, and strangest planet in the solar system!
Packed with real, kid-friendly facts and bright, colorful illustrations, Venus! The Hottest Planet takes curious readers ages 10-12 on a cosmic tour of Earth's dazzling twin. It's almost exactly the same size as our planet - yet it's a scorching world of golden acid clouds, crushing air, backwards days, and thousands of volcanoes. Every page is a new discovery.
Perfect for young space fans, budding astronomers, and any kid who loves science, this engaging nonfiction reader makes learning about the solar system genuinely fun - and it's written just right for confident independent readers and the classroom.
Inside this space book for kids, young explorers will discover:
- Why Venus is even hotter than Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun
- How its thick clouds act like a giant heat-trapping greenhouse
- Why a single day on Venus lasts longer than its whole year
- The reason Venus spins backwards, so the Sun rises in the west
- What hides beneath the clouds - mountains taller than Everest and tens of thousands of volcanoes
- The brave robot spacecraft - Mariner 2, the Venera landers, and Magellan - sent to explore it
- A fun end-of-book quiz and an easy-to-use glossary
With clear text, eye-catching pictures, and only true facts, this is a fantastic STEM gift for birthdays, holidays, and classrooms - and a great addition to any young reader's space and astronomy collection.
Scroll up and grab your copy - the adventure to Earth's boiling twin starts now!
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