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Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet Spiral-Bound | 2019-01-29

Curtis Manley Jessica Lanan (Illustrated by)

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Follow a young girl as she learns about the mysteries of outer space in this gorgeous book about the search for another Earth, a "Goldilocks Planet."

Do you wonder if humans
are the only beings who wonder
if they are alone in the universe?

Our sun is a star.
In the night sky are all kinds of stars,
and orbiting those stars
are planets like the ones in our own solar system.

Planet Earth is not too big,
not too small, not too hot,
and not too cold. It's just right.
Our very own Goldilocks planet . . . .

Follow a young girl
as she explores these questions
in this gorgeous book about the wondrous search
for another Goldilocks planet.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Hardcover Picture Book
Pages: 48 pages
ISBN-10: 1250155339
Item Weight: 1.2 lbs
Dimensions: 10.1 x 0.4 x 11.2 inches
Curtis Manley grew up building model rockets and reading science fiction about aliens and long trips to other star systems--none of which had Jupiter-like planets close to their stars. Later he studied volcanoes and the geology of other planets and moons. In the high desert of Idaho he mapped huge lava flows similar to ones on Venus. Curtis lives near Seattle with his wife and their daughter, who was born the year that the first exoplanet around a sun-like star was discovered.

Jessica Lanan has long been enchanted by the mysteries of the cosmos. Exoplanets are too far away for her to visit, but illustrating them is the next best thing. Jessica currently lives in her native state of Colorado with her husband, three-legged cat, and baby daughter, who was born during the making of this book.