USA From Space

By Anne-Catherine Fallen

Book Overview

Satellite images from outer space show us an astronaut's view of the world below. The colorful pictures let us explore what we see in maps of the United States, only the details are real. Big lakes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552091570
• ISBN13: 9781552091579
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.9" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 7 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 8

Customer Reviews

A Good Book for Kids and Adults

Contained with the pages of this small book are many outstanding photographs of the USA taken from space by a variety of orbiting spacecraft. The photographs chosen for this book, cover the very diverse geological features of the United States from the Rocky Mountains, Grand Canyon, Great Lakes and Cap Cod. In addition, there are some really nice photographs of the cities and the farmlands of the United States. To improve the presentation of the photographs, each photograph's location is shown on a map along with a picture taken from the exact location. It is interesting to see how different things appear from a couple hundreds up than from being there on the ground.While this book is geared for grade school children, I feel that many adults would find this book enjoyable as well, since the photographs, both those from Earth's surface and those from space, are extremely interesting and provide an excellent overview of the landscapes in the USA.