Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2017 i Ask Science and Arts Magazine for Kids and Children

JOURNEY TO JUPITER After a five-year journey, an Earthly visitor has arrived at Jupiter, our solar system’s biggest planet. The visitor is a robotic spacecraft called Juno. Juno quickly got to work snapping photos and sampling the space around the planet. Juno will circle Jupiter 37 times over a period of 20 months. Its scientific tools will peer through the planet’s swirling clouds to help answer some questions. For example, how far down do those clouds go? How much water do they hold? Does the planet have a core made of solid rock? How strong is its magnetic field? The data will help Earthlings get to know our giant neighbor a little better. It will also help scientists understand how the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago. Stay tuned…

Big book This enormous book of Buddhist teachings is carved onto 730 stones set around a temple in Myanmar. Small book This tiny round prayer book was made for a noblewoman in 1480. Fish book Many odd materials have been used to make book covers—wood, feathers, stone, noodles, even clamshells. Fun book Pop-up books can make reading even more fun. This carousel book opens up into a circular diorama. Each scene tells a part of the story. Lotta book Can’t decide what to read? This unusual tome is actually six books bound together. One opens to the left, one to the right, and two open from either end, where the clasps are. Not a book The fun design of the Kansas City Public Library lets everyone know what’s inside. New…

Have you ever paced the library shelves, looking for a good circus pirate adventure mystery with talking bears? Or a funny comic about rocks? Or Harry Potter and the Space Rangers? But alas, there is no such book! Time to fix that. For this month’s contest, make up a title and draw a lovely, exciting cover for a great book that doesn’t exist, but should. And if you feel really inspired, why stop there? Contest Rules: 1. Your contest entry must be your very own work. Ideas and words should not be copied. 2. Be sure to include your name, age, and address on your entry. 3. Only one entry per person, please. 4. If you want your work returned, enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. 5. Your entry must be…

Have you ever wondered how to make a wheel, or how many arms a squid has? Just type your question into a computer, and instantly you have floods of information! But finding things out wasn’t always so easy. A Curious Time Back in the 1700s, there were no computers, or cars, or even electric lights. If you had a question, you could ask your parents, or a teacher, or a priest. A few people had books, but for most, the world outside their villages was a mystery. Yet all over Europe and America, people were crazy for knowledge. More and more were learning to read. Science was challenging old ways of thinking and offering new explanations of the world. This age came to be called “the Enlightenment” for its great…

The History of Making Books Scholastic Voyages of Discovery If you want to know even more about the history of books, this book tells it all, with lots of great pictures, fold-outs, raised pages that feel like printers’ blocks, and even stickers! Clearly, the people who made this fancy book about making books really, really like books—maybe as much as I do. What Do Authors Do? by Eileen Christelow How do books get made? From getting an idea to signing copies in the bookstore, this jolly book follows two writers who are also neighbors as they write their books about a dog and a cat. Where do ideas come from? How do you make a good story? What if no one likes it? Who chooses the title? The secrets of…

Send your letters to Ask Mail, 70 East Lake St., Suite 800, Chicago, IL 60601, or have your parent or legal guardian email us at ask@cricketmedia.com. Dear Plush, I like drawing and writing. I like drawing animals the best! When I was little I wanted to be a zookeeper but now I want to be an EMT. That stands for Emergency Medical Technician. I hope you have a great day, Plush! Veronica J.-P., age 6, Missouri Dear Veronica, Both zookeeper and EMT sound like amazing jobs—lots of excitement, and you get to take care of people (or animals). And I’ll bet both hear lots of great stories, if later on you want to be a writer. Kindness makes every day great! Plush Dear Avery and Whatson, How are you? When…