Poems of the Planets’ highly original approach makes learning science exciting for everyone. Primarily intended for students ages 9 - 14, readers of all ages relish and learn from these poems and the detailed explanations that accompany them. Readers tour our entire solar system. Each body – the Sun, the eight planets, many moons, asteroids, the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud – are presented through a clever poem that focuses on each object’s unique aspects. Reference numbers lead from verses in the poems to expanded information and additional, often-surprising details. Each poem is unique. For example, while one poem examines the intensely corrosive atmosphere of Venus, another explains the origin of 400 huge active volcanoes on a moon of Jupiter, and still another spotlights the wacky actions of the tiny moons that circle within Saturn's brilliant rings. Along the way, readers acquire important basic concepts in chemistry, physics, biology, geology, and oceanography, as well as topics in geography, history and mythology. Still more is to be learned in the extensive tutorial glossary of nearly 200 terms. Poems of the Planets engages readers of every age in a mesmerizing journey of scientific wonder.