Let's Investigate with Nate: The Solar System

Reviewed by: Karen Spiliopoulos - Parsons Memorial Library, Alfred, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: March 12, 2018

Review

This is the second book in a new STEM-based picture book series from the Emmy Award-winning host of PBS’s Design Squad and Design Squad Nation, Nate Ball. With a lively cast of characters and vibrant illustrations by Wes Hargis, it's an adventure in learning!

Every Saturday morning four friends, Wendy, Braden, Rosa, and Felix meet with Nate at the Science Museum for a new adventure and discovery. This week they will explore the solar system and determine for themselves whether or not Pluto is a planet. The explorers don their space gear and travel the galaxy from Earth to Pluto learning all they can about space and what is or isn't a planet. Great fun for the space fan in all of us. Bubbles for the youngest learners and more detailed sidebars for older readers. I am looking forward to the next adventure.

Overall Book Score: very good