Night Skies of Canada
Night Skies of Canada
The night sky has more than just stars to see. We can see planets, meteors, the moon, star clusters and even more galaxies! With a telescope, you can even see the rings of Saturn.
Use binoculars at twilight to view the craters of the moon. At night, you can see the 4 largest moons of Jupiter! For the best sky watching, try to avoid cities. Countrysides and wilderness offer the best dark skies for star gazing!
In Night Skies of Canada, as a group of caped men and women fly around the skies, they explain some of the common things that appear at nighttime in the sky. They devote two pages each to the sunset, the Aurora Borealis, the moon (and its phases), stars and galaxies, comets, planets and meteors. Each of the constellations is described and shown as a picture in the stars. A star chart is included for best viewing times during the seasons. The book ends with information about a sunrise.
Although every page in Night Skies of Canada has words appearing in red, they are not defined in the back of the book but instead within the context of the sentence. The unnamed Super Explorers pose and point next to boxes of facts, photographs, or side bars of information. The dialogue boxes, panels, and large headings appear in different colours, and sizes, all of which helps to break up the information in the book. Reluctant readers may particularly enjoy this format, especially if they are comic readers.
Tanya Boudreau is a librarian at the Cold Lake Public Library in Cold Lake, Alberta.