Features:
- Includes vocabulary word hunt with pronunciations, glossary, and index
- Labeled diagrams and timelines
- Beautiful, full-color photographs
- Simple interior design and easy-to-read fonts
- Web sites for further research and information
- Vocabulary preview and review pages plus backmatter pages that invite readers to think further on the study topics
- Fits science curriculum standards for earth & space science and science and technology
What's New:
- Updated illustrations and photos
- Updated art of solar system shows 8 planets and their orbits instead of 9
- New Pluto book includes a list of other dwarf planets, in addition to Pluto, in our solar system
- Updated information on space missions, moons, and planets
- Updated Web sites for further information in backmatter
- Updated indexes

Taylor-Butler studied both engineering and art & design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.