¡°Seymour Simon may have done more than any other living author to help us to understand and appeciate out planet and our universe" -Kirkus reviews
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Seymour SimonÀÇ ÀÛ°¡Á¤½ÅÀº ¾Æ·¡ÀÇ ±Û¿¡¼µµ Àß µå·¯³³´Ï´Ù. ¡°Taking a walk and really looking, listening, and feeling the world around you can be a strange experience. You begin to observe things you never paid much attention to. You've seen clouds, trees, rocks and machines thousands of times before, but now you begin to wonder about them. Does that dark cloud mean it's going to rain? Why do some leaves turn red in the fall. while others turn yellow? What kind of rock has glittery little specks in it? how can a heavy thing like an airplane fly?"
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