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Monday, April 1, 2024

SUN FUN: GET READY FOR THE ECLIPSE Coming On APRIL 8, 2024! 10 Projects for Kids

On Monday, April 8, 2024, a solar eclipse will be seen over North America. The path of the full eclipse will pass over 13 states and a partial eclipse will be seen in many more.

It is never safe to look at the sun directly. Here's how you can experience an eclipse safely. This project is in my book Sun Fun, originally published in 1981 by Franklin Watts, and now available as an e-book on Amazon or downloadable on Epic at your school or library.

Sun Fun includes 10 projects for primary school age children to learn about the sun-- a paper plate clock to tell time by the sun, how to make shadow puppets and solar art, creating a pin-hole card for watching an eclipse, and much more. You can preview the book in this video on YouTube about how to make a sun clock. (The illustrations in the book are my own, created in the days of pre-separated art. I had to make a separate drawing for each printed color!)

Enjoy learning about the sun and watching the eclipse safely!

Sunday, October 15, 2023

SUN FUN: WATCHING A SOLAR ECLIPSE (safely)

Image of Eclipse through a pinhole. Illustration by Caroline Arnold in Sun Fun.

No "ring of fire" but lots of crescent shaped suns as the partial eclipse passed over Los Angeles yesterday! Any tiny opening (between leaves on the trees or poked in a piece of paper) became a pinhole camera projecting the sun's image.)

Shadows of leaves on a sidewalk create images of partially obscured sun.

On Saturday morning, October 14, 2023, I and millions of other people experienced an annular eclipse when the moon passes in front of the sun, leaving a thin edge of the sun peeking out behind it. A full annular eclipse looks like a ring of fire. In Los Angeles, where I live, we did not see the full eclipse, but we did see a partial eclipse.

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MORE THAN 170 BOOKS

I have been writing for children since 1980 and am the author of more than 170 books, both fiction and nonfiction. I am also an illustrator. My newest titles include my memoir (for adults) Settlement House Girl, My Friend from Outer Space, Keeper of the Light: Juliet Fish Nichols Fights the San Francisco Fog, Planting a Garden in Room 6, Butterflies in Room 6, Hatching Chicks in Room 6, Living Fossils, Clues to the Past and four books in the Caroline Arnold's Habitats series: A Day and Night in the Rain Forest, Desert, Prairie, and Forest. Other recent titles include Too Hot? Too Cold? Keeping Body Temperature Just Right and A Warmer World: From Polar Bears to Butterflies, How Climate Change Affects Wildlife, A Polar Bear’s World, illustrated with my own cut paper art, now republished as a board book, Wiggle and Waggle, five stories about two hardworking worms, and The Terrible Hodag and the Animal Catchers, a tall tale which won the Parents’ Choice Gold Award are two of my fiction books. In 2008 I received the California Readers Leo Politi Award for my body of work. For more about my books, go to www.carolinearnold.com. I received a B.A. from Grinnell College in Iowa, and an M.A. in Art from the University of Iowa. I live in Los Angeles and Oakland, CA. I love to visit schools and libraries to talk about my books and the writing and illustrating process. Click here to learn more about my school visit programs.