About this item
What keeps objects from floating out of your hand?What if your feet drifted away from the ground?What stops everything from floating into space?Gravity.As in his previous books, Redwoods, Coral Reefs, and Island, Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.A Neal Porter Book
About the Author
Jason Chin is the author and illustrator of numerous award winning picture books. His newest book is WATERCRESS by Andrea Wang, which has garnered six starred reviews with the Publishers Weekly calling it "An adept gem of a picture book." His latest authored title, YOUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE, was a 2020 Horn Book Fanfare title.His book GRAND CANYON received both a Caldecott Honor and a Sibert Honor, and won the 2018 Orbis Pictus Award. He is the author of the award-winning books REDWOODS; ISLAND: A Story of the Galápagos (winner of the 2013 Gryphon Award) , and GRAVITY(a Gryphon Honor book) . WATER IS WATER, written by Miranda Paul, was a 2016 ALA Notable Book and CORAL REEFS was nominated for the Texas Bluebonnet Award.Jason lives in Vermont with his wife, Deirdre Gill and their two children.
