Matter

I really like this book. I have it digitally so I can always have it with me. The Art by Artist Shululu, is gorgeous. Appears to be watercolor, I think. It is written in a way that makes a person think. Author Andi Diehn gives good examples, and asks us good questions....though sometimes I wanted her to just tell me the answer....but then she went through a checklist to rule out if something was or wasn’t matter. I found myself acquiescing, and ruling things out like I was asked to do. Then I heard myself actually say out loud, “Well, no....it doesn’t have any of the required properties of Matter, so.....I guess light doesn’t have Matter...”. Turn the page, and the answer and my hypothesis is confirmed..... Light doesn’t contain Matter! .....Gee thanks Ms. Diehn....after I figured it out myself! You tricked me into learning and I LOVED it. There are activities for students,teachers, and homeschoolers included, and a great Matter vocab list at the end. I highly recommend this book! Personal note: I am using it and a few others to write a song about Matter. What is funny is I had a similar idea about “It Doesn’t Matter.” A play on words that fit beautifully into this book. Let’s see how it works for a silly song. I also love tricking kids into learning! 😆✌🏼🎶🎨📚

This was informative, but also very digestible for my third and first grader. I teach science at a homeschool co-op and read this to my first graders. They loved it and learned a lot!

I purchased this book in order to be able to get some insight on how informative it is in order to determine whether or not it would be a good resource. I found the book educational and informative for its intended age group. The book covers a lot and is a great way to get young children to engage with a book while learning about matter. This book along with others similar ones to it are great must haves in a teacher/parent/kids book collection.

I love everything about this book, the introduction, the examples, the non-examples...except this one TINY thing: matter is anything that takes up space and has MASS! Mass is different than weight. There is a lot of confusion between the two. I weigh less on the moon, but my mass stays the same.

This was a great book! I read it to my class to introduce our science lesson on matter.

Great book to explain matter to younger students.

My children and I love this book. It's clear, engaging and very informative. Well written with great illustrations.

Great gift for kids!