An illustrated afterword provides additional explanations of mass, matter, and force. In his embrace of the wild possibilities of a world without gravity, Chin outdoes himself. As in his previous books, Redwoods, Coral Reefs, and Island, Jason Chin has taken a. Chin does some David Wiesner style visual punning as the pages of the boy's book illustrated with paintings of a massive, fiery sun exerting force on a tiny Earth and moon do double duty as both an object affected by gravity and an explanation of how it works. Gravity, the invisible force that causes objects to attract each other. The next page shows the whole lot drifting upward like a tide of debris into space. The all-caps text reads like a series of booming declarations: 'Without gravity, everything would float away.' On cue, the boy, his spaceman doll and rocket, and the very grains of sand on the beach lift slowly off the ground. A boy playing at the beach is startled when a book a copy of this book, alert readers will note falls from the sky and lands in front of him. the universe?ĭr.Chin (Island) takes his exceptional artistic gifts into outer space, painting with disciplined exuberance a series of spreads that explain the fundamentals of gravity. twenty times smaller than a California Redwood! How do they compare to the tallest buildings? To Mt. but only half as tall as an ostrich, which is half as tall as a giraffe. Most eight-year-olds are about five times as tall as this book. With crisp illustration and intriguing science, Your Place in the Universe introduces readers to the mind-boggling scale of the known Universe. Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin (Neal Porter Books) Roaring Brook/Porter, 16. He and his wife Deirdre, also an artist, live in Vermont. His work also includes illustrations for Simon Winchester's The Day the World Exploded. Tag us on our Twitter or Instagram account you send in your challenge OR just leave a comment below about the episode, you will be entered into a giveaway to win a FREE copy of the book listed on below. Jason Chin is the author and artist of the award-winning book Redwoods, which Kirkus Reviews called, An inventive eye-opening adventure. In Gravity, Jason continues with a beautiful tribute to the topic of gravity. With your parents permission, send us your picture via email at OR Gravity As an award-winning writer of picture books, Jason Chin has an incredible knack for taking complex subjects and making them easy to understand for younger audiences. Now draw it.īe sure to add things into your picture that can’t be conveyed in words. Go outside and find a bit of science interests you. Copyright Jason Chin (Your Place in the Universe, Neal Porter Books)

Gravity by Jason Chin