Find out about the four plants nearest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Discover what these planets are like, which has the most moons and which spacecraft have visited them.

The Our Solar System series of books explore the topic of space and are specially written for younger readers. With stunning photographs and explanatory artwork, the books are the perfect introduction to our solar system.

Other titles in the series: Asteroids, Comets and Meteors; Earth; The Moon; The Outer Planets and The Sun

This book is part of a book series called Our Solar System .

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Hachette Children's Group .

Mary-Jane Wilkins has been involved in creating children's non-fiction titles for many years. She was responsible for several highly successful literacy series under the umbrella title of Learning through Literacy, created by Belitha Press and published by Scholastic in the US. Creating non-fiction series for co-editions has long been a focus, and many series have been sold worldwide. She also works in children's fiction and adult non-fiction.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Where are the inner planets?
• 2: The solar system
• 3: Rocky worlds
• 4: Mercury
• 5: Finding out about Mercury
• 6: Venus
• 7: Finding out about Venus
• 8: Mars
• 9: Finding our about Mars
• 10: The planets and the Sun
• 11: Useful words
• 12: Find out more
• 13: Index