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Caldecott 수상작가인 Molly Bang의 아름다운 그림과 함께 에너지의 원리에 관한 과학적인 지식을 쉽고 재미있게 배울 수 있는 책입니다.
태양을 1인칭 화자로 해서 지구상의 모든 에너지와 전기의 근원이 태양의 빛으로부터 비롯된다는 것을 하나하나 설명해 줍니다. 밤이 되면 지구는 어둠에 잠기지만 네온사인과 조명의 불이 들어오는 도시 지역은 마치 별들이 지구에 떨어진 것 같이 환하게 빛납니다. 그런데 이 불빛은 사실 별 중의 하나인 태양의 빛이라고 할 수 있습니다.
- 수력발전에 의해 발생되는 전기도 알고 보면 태양열에 의해 하늘로 증발해서 올라간 수증기가 비가 되어 지상에 떨어진 후 댐에 갇혀 있다가 터빈을 돌려서 전기를 얻는 것이지요.
- 풍력발전으로 얻는 전기도 태양열에 의해 발생한 대기의 흐름인 바람을 이용해서 큰 프로펠러를 돌려 전기를 만드는 것이지요.
- 화력발전의 연료가 되는 석탄이나 석유도 알고 보면 태양에 의해 만들어진 것입니다. 태양의 빛을 나뭇잎이 받아들이는 광합성을 통해 나무는 성장을 합니다. 이런 나무들이 땅 속에서 수백만년을 묻혀 있으면 석탄이나 석유로 변하지요.
- 그리고 최근에는 건물의 옥상이나 벽면에 설치된 태양전지를 이용해서 태양의 빛을 직접 전기로 바꿔서 사용하기도 합니다.
결국 저녁에 밝게 빛나는 전구의 불빛은 태양빛이 다양한 에너지 형태로 변한 것을 다시 빛의 형태로 바꾼 것이지요. 그러니 전구를 켜면 태양이라는 별이 지구에 떨어져서 빛을 내는 것과 같은 것이지요...
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Edition : Hardcover: 40 pages
ISBN: 043948961X
책 크기 : 28.6cm x 23.5cm
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From the Publisher
Though we often take it for granted, the sun provides the energy that powers everything on Earth, from plants and trees to machines and cities. With dazzling paintings and simple text, acclaimed author and illustrator Molly Bang takes young readers on an incredible journey that follows the light of the sun as it is transformed into the energy we use every day in our homes. From windmills and solar cells to fossil fuels and dams, here is a fascinating presentation of the way we use our amazing natural resources to light up our world.
The Washington Post
As in her 1997 book on natural resources, Common Ground, it is Bang's brilliantly clear, colorful paintings that really illuminate the concepts she discusses.
Publishers Weekly
With the carefully honed prose and wholly original visual imagination that have long been her hallmarks, Bang (When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry...) explores the many ways in which the sun's light is transformed into the energy that fuels almost everything on the earth. Children will like the voice: the speaker is the sun ("your golden star"). The energy from "my light" becomes the book's recurring visual motif: Bang visualizes it as undulating necklaces of golden, effervescent dots that travel through space, pulsate through power lines and wind in and out of generators. Each sequence of spreads examines a form and function of the sun's energy. Bang explains how sunlight drives the water cycle, creating rain that carries "my energy down, down, down" via rivers to a dam ("You humans stop the flow. My energy is trapped.... Whoosh! The water spins the turbines round and round. It spins my energy to generators, which make electricity"). Page after page of compelling images illuminate the drama of the text: a jungle brought to life by photosynthesis; a parade of soaring, buzzing power lines, standing against a purple-gray sky, cleaved by lightning. In the lengthy but spirited afterword (readers are referred to the author's Web site for even more information), Bang notes that although she had little prior interest in energy, her fascination grew the more she delved into the subject. Youngsters should find her enthusiasm electrifying.
Children's Literature
Written in the first person, My Light chronicles the daily activities of the sun as "it" shares what it does for the earth and how it accomplishes it. "I am your sun, a golden star. You see my radiance as light . . ." Bang's well-researched tale and four pages of follow-up text that provides additional information in support of the simpler "story" on each page is excellent and would help adults provide greater context for children interested in knowing the specifics of energy, absorption, etc. Yet this is not a dull read; Bang's imagery and word choice provide a vivid text for her readers. And then there are the illustrations: phenomenal only begins to explain Bang's choices in her use of color and composition. While the text is solid, the pictures really help to bring home the point of the text. This is a picture book that should be found in all libraries.
School Library Journal
Bang has chosen a huge topic, and in some ways, it overwhelms her. Writing in the voice of the sun, the first-person narrative investigates various forms of energy on Earth, all derived in one way or another from the light and heat of this solar system's major star. It's an enormous task-how to describe the weather cycle, dams, turbines, electricity and its generation, windmills, fossil fuels (she mentions coal but leaves out oil), and solar cells in an illustrated book for fairly young children-and Bang is only moderately successful. Indeed, in the introduction to four pages of much denser end matter, the author mentions that her notes started turning into an encyclopedia, but, mercifully, an editor "cut them WAY back. Now those notes are on my Web site at www.mollybang.com, and I hope interested readers will do further research on their own." Overall, the author makes a valiant stab, and for science-minded children who can absorb a large amount of information, this title could be an interesting selection. Her stunning and technically accomplished illustrations, as always, are radiant and worth a look. Despite its shortcomings, this ambitious book is an illuminating auxiliary purchase.
Kirkus Reviews
Told poetically from the perspective of the sun, Bang's latest illuminates electricity and explains how humans harness energy from water, wind, earth, and sun. A dramatic opening spread draws readers in, depicting a city seen from above, its stippled light reflected stars in an inky night sky. The sun, Bang explains, is the biggest star of all, radiating light and heat. Later, she uses a trio of overlapping panels-reminiscent of traditional Japanese nature scenes-to home in as water, warmed by the sun, returns to earth as rain, flowing from mountaintop to rushing river. Throughout, Bang uses these panels to emphasize technical elements, such as the flow of electricity from turbines to generator. Backmatter offers further detail on fossil fuel and solar power. |
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