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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 520.92 EAN: 9780374470272 ISBN: 0374470278 Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 40 Publication Date: September 01, 2000 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: The story of Galileo is at once inspiring and troubling. The brilliant astronomer was a celebrated scientist who was showered with honors and patronage until his greatest discovery--that the earth circled the sun rather than the other way around--proved to be too much of a threat to prevailing orthodoxy. Peter Sis, author of the wonderful children's book Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus, tells Galileo's tale for children ages 8 and older. A brilliant and sophisticated illustrator and a sensitive storyteller, he traces Galileo's life from childhood to his final days as a prisoner of the church. (Click to see a sample spread. © 1996 by Peter Sis. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.) (Ages 8 and older) Product Description: "If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the skies to map the heavens. In doing so, he offered objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe but that it and all the other planets revolved around the sun. Galileo kept careful notes and made beautiful drawings of all that he observed. Through his telescope he brought the starts down to earth for everyone to see. By changing the way people saw the galaxy, Galileo was also changing the way they saw themselves and their place in the universe. This was very exciting, but to some to some it was deeply disturbing. Galileo has upset the harmonious view of heaven and earth that had been accepted since ancient times. He had turned the world upside down. In this amazing new book, Peter Sís employs the artist's lens to give us an extraordinary view of the life of Galileo Galilei. Sís tells his story in language as simple as a fairy tale, in pictures as rich and tightly woven as a tapestry, and in Galileo's own words, written more than 350 years ago and still resonant with truth. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - another great one from sisSis is a genius and of all his books I've read with my kids we've loved all of them. Starry Messenger is no exception to his string of hits. His books--ignoring for a moment those like Fire Truck that are basic and seemingly by another author--tend toward the baroque. If one has a strong aversion to busyness then Sis won't appeal to them. For the rest of us, each page of his books is a wonder. Some critics are correct that he can take his dense aesthetic too far (and he can be ... Read More Rating:  - Beautiful, but very hard to read!Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei is a gorgeous book, full of glorious illustrations that children with patience who like hidden detail will find engrossing. Unfortunately, the book is shy on text. Much of the more important text, especially the words of Galileo himself, is printed in a very hard to read cursive script, oddly sprinkled on the page in a way that often requires the book to be turned sideways, upside down or even round and round. This would not be my first-choice biography ... Read More Rating:  - SPIRAL downward in my estimation, as well as voiced by other readers.I love history. I love Biblical history. It seemed as if the illustrator had a "proverbial gun to their head" to get all the text into "X" amount of pages -- thereby printing it every "which way" in order to accomplish this feat. It wasn't "cute" nor CLEAVER having to read spirals -- in a book that has so much GOOD INFORMATION -- that NOVELTY need not be included!!! Due to this need for attention -- my score for this book which had been a five star rating did ... Read More Rating: - Would you like to swing on a star? Carry a moonbeam home in a jar?I've reviewed a fair amount of Peter Sis books in my day on Amazon.com, but this is the first book by Sis that I've come across that has so many negative/tepid reviews. Now, before I review a book I give its Amazon.com page a once-over to get a feel for what the public at large thinks about the story. Peter Sis is one of those authors who can write extraordinarily simple books for little children (like "Komodo", "Madlenka", or "Fire Truck") then turn around and do mind-bendingly complex picture books ... Read More Rating: - Beautiful and InnaccurateThis absolutely stunning book is simple, difficult and innaccurate. Sounds contradictory? It is. If one were to read the large text, this book is highly oversimplified. Cursive writing weaves through the illustrations that is more complex, too difficult to read by the intended audience of a child's picture book. In the main text, Galileo is purported to have beliefs that were against the BIBLE. Galileo's beliefs were not against the teachings of the Bible, rather the viewpoint of the ... Read More 
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