Book Review: Every Day on Earth by Steve and Matthew Murrie, Illus. by Tom Bloom

Today we have a SUPER interesting book, that is not only perfect for the home schoolers out there, but for searching for science fair/class projects, and for winning those trivia games. Ok, so it's also good for astounding your kids- always a plus!


Every Day on Earth cover
SynopsisDiscover all of the amazing things that can happen around the world in just one day! You already know all of the amazing things that can happen in just one minute on Earth (from their previous book), so think of what could happen in a whole day! 


Your taste bud cells are replaced at a rate of 50,000 a day. Almost 40,000 trees are cut down every day just to make paper bags. And a mayfly lives its entire life in a single day. This book is full of fun facts about space, technology, pop culture, food, animals, sports, the human body, and more!


About the Authors: Matthew has an MA in the Teaching of English from Teachers College, Columbia University and has over five years of experience teaching in five countries on three different continents, as a public school teacher, private academy instructor, and Peace Corps volunteer. In addition to having coauthored Every Minute on Earth and Guide to the Planet (Planet Earth), Matthew has also written classroom curriculum and reading material for one of Korea’s leading, private educational institutes, Chungdahm Learning.


Steve, a retired science teacher who still substitutes and teaches classes at a local community college, has been teaching for nearly 40 years. He holds an MA from Penn State University in Science Education. He is the coauthor of Every Minute on Earth and Guide to the Planet, both published by Scholastic, Inc. His dedication to his work and effectiveness in promoting it has been instrumental in the former reaching the 100,000 sales mark in a little over a year.


Review: This book came at a pretty good time, as Kiddo is starting in on wanting thorough answers to questions like 'how many bones do we have' and 'why do we sneeze'. So I knew she would like alot of the info, even if we were reading and making sure it was on her level to understand!


The book has 8 sections: Living Things, Earth, Food, the Human Body, Pop Culture, Space, technology and Sports. All are color coded, so they are easy to find! Mr. Bloom's illustrations are simple and colorful, and definitely 'kid friendly'. I learned alot I had either forgotten, or never learned! Consider these facts:

  • Male mosquitos son't bite you- they prefer plant juices. BUT a female, now that's another story- she acts like a vampire to get 0.0001 to 0.001 milliliters of blood PER day, so she can have enough nourishment to lay eggs. BAD Momma to be!
  • There are 15 million bars of America's favorite candy bar made DAILY: The second oldest candy bar from the Mars company: Snickers!
  • Check your ice cream label. Chances are there is SEA KELP in it! As a source of algin, it is a blending and binding agent!
  • Your heart pumps enough blood daily to fill the tank of a fire engine! That's 2,000 gallons, in case you were wondering!
  • Did you know our 'day' is not really 24 hours? The Earth rotates completely around on it's axis in 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds! 
  • and During a standard 90 minute soccer match, the average player runs 6.2 MILES. Whew, I;m tired just reading that!
You see? FUN stuff that can get your kids interested in science and spur some really cool science fair exhibits (call me if you do the heart/fire engine thing- I'd love to see that one)! PLUS, at under $10, it's a BARGAIN. And if you get their previous book, you;d have double the science fun for under a $20 bill, how cool is that?

The authors have gave us lots of ideas and topics to talk about- check it out with your kids today and see where it can take your family!



Disclosure / Disclaimer: I received this book, free of charge, from the authors themselves, for review purposes on this blog. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about it.

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