The "ZigZag" books are designed to introduce a subject to kindergarten and first grade kids in a way that will capture their imaginations, and encourage them to ZigZag down other paths to find out more, all with a healthy dose of humor and irreverance guaranteed to get their attention. Written in easy-to-read language, and illustrated by photographs that have been artfully, humorously amended to clarify or illuminate, this book is an introduction to the planets in our solar system, including our home planet Earth. Readers will learn how Earth is perfectly positioned to support life, how the gas giants are considered outer planets, and how there is still a place for Pluto even though we think of him differently now! With their curiosity peaked readers ZigZag to...what else is out there? What's it like to look at Earth from space? Will I get to live on Mars? Do an experiment - swing a planet into orbit!