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8 Little Planets Board book – 15 September 2018

by Chris Ferrie (Author)

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8 little planets with the sun at the center,
each one wishing it were a little bit better...

Old slow Neptune felt he was behind.
165 years to circle the sun is an awful long time.
But the 8th little planet didn't need to worry.
It spins on its axis in a really big hurry!

To the tune of "Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" comes a new bedtime story from bestselling author Chris Ferrie that's sure to get little ones excited about the solar system while learning new facts about each planet!

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ASIN : 149267124X
Publisher : Sourcebooks eXplore (15 September 2018)
Language : English
Board book : 18 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781492671244
ISBN-13 : 978-1492671244
Dimensions : 20.32 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 1,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- 12 in Stories In Verse for Children

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Chris Ferrie is an award-winning physicist and Senior Lecturer for Quantum Software and Information at the University of Technology Sydney. He has a Masters in Applied Mathematics, BMath in Mathematical Physics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics. He lives in Australia with his wife and children.

Lizzy Doyle is a designer, illustrator, and author from New Jersey. She is the creator and owner of Lizzy Dee Studio where she uses her children's publishing experience and her love for all things smiley to design books, craft kits, and paper goods. Her design mind gives an edge in the illustration market where she loves creating cute characters, patterns for apparel & decor, and illustrations for licensing! Lizzy is also an avid collector of oddities & antiques, a WFMU fanatic, and you'll never see her without tea in hand.

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Love it! Great planet based nursery rhymes for kids! Imperial measurements..

Reviewed in Australia on 17 August 2019

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Love this and kids love it. Reads through well with some very basic facts to distinguish each planet for them. Both 3 and 5 year old were very interested to sit and listen a couple time through.

Only gripe is that it mentions both feet and temperature in farenheit. Kids won't care, but I did. The book is sold in Australia it should have metric measurements.

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Olivia Harbeck

Awesome Book

Reviewed in Australia on 15 October 2020

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My little girl loves this book. Easy to read.

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Fluff

Disappointing writing in this book compared to other Chris Ferrie books.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 2019

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Chris Ferrie has created the brilliant "... for Babies" series. We've bought loads of these for ourselves and as presents for others. We've recommended them to plenty of people as well. On the basis of those books, we bought this - a world of difference (no pun intended).

In the "... for babies" series his short punchy writing style is a brilliant accompaniment to the pictures. Here he tries to use a different writing style... and it's really poor. He's trying to write in verse but it seems like he has no sense of rhyme or rhythm.

"8 little planets with the Sun at the center.
Does each one wish it were a little bit better" - Apart from the complete fail on the rhyme, I don't even know what he's trying to say here. It's like he couldn't think of anything better and just thought "Oh this'll do".

The book is beautifully colourful and physically attractive. Although, on some pages, there is so much going on, that the central theme of the page (the planet in question) kind of gets lost. The idea of the book is great, but the sort of fun that many authors have, using rhyme and tempo in language that is to be read aloud to kids, is missing here. If someone else had provided the writing to support Chris Ferrie's imaginative ideas, this could have been a great book.

Second reviewer feedback(!) - Our son has complete free reign over which books he wants read to him and (unlike other Chris Ferrie books) this one hardly ever gets picked.

UPDATE:
I've updated our score on this as our son picks this one quite regularly now. As above, it is a beautiful little book.... in its concept, layout and presentation (it just has incredibly clunky writing!)

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Jcdm

Doesn't rhyme

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 November 2018

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8 Little Planets is a lovely book
Although Chris Ferrie should really take a look
-at a rhyming dictionary because his tale
Doesn't scan or rhyme properly.

It looks beautiful and I'm sure my daughter will love it when she's a bit bigger but, even with an Australian accent, "better" doesn't rhyme with "centre".

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Kerri

Educational without being too much for young kids. Great book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2020

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Good introduction book for young kids. My 3 year old is really into space at the minute so we bought him this book to introduce him to the planets. It's quite educational and talks about the moons and speed they go round the sun without being information overload. It also rhymes and is a nice little book.

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nick pierno

Writing is weak and messaging is just strange

Reviewed in Canada on 5 September 2019

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When we first saw this book, we jumped to buy it because we love space-themed stuff! But the minute we read it with our baby we were super let down and left cringing at the bad writing and poor grammar. The rhyming is bad too and the message of the book is just weird.

"8 little planets, going 'round the sun. Could these little planets be having much fun? 8 little planets with the sun at the centre, does each one wish it were a little bit better?"

"Pale blue earth should be filled with strife, it must be hard being home to all this life."

Isn't this strange? Like no, the planets are fine just as they are. It should be celebrating them for being awesome. Not striving to be better or different, or saying how hard it is to be them.

Gets two stars for the cute illustrations, bright colours and the fact that our baby likes putting his hand in the hole and turning the pages.

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Rebecca Rolfe

Beautiful book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2019

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Beautiful book and very informative too! Just as entertaining as any other children’s book but with an educational element

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