six stories taller than the Statue of Liberty” and “. Chin uses relatable visual and textual comparisons that help young readers grasp the enormity of these giants: “. The clever book-within-a-book format uses a boy as a stand-in for the reader, who will be fascinated by the multitude of facts about redwood trees and the habitat they both live in and help create. He lives in Vermont with his wife and children.Through a series of creative setting transitions, Jason Chin takes his readers on an awe-inspiring journey out of a city, through a redwood forest, and back home again. He is also the illustrator of Stephanie Parsley Ledyard's debut title Pie Is for Sharing and Miranda Paul's Water is Water and Nine Months: Before a Baby is Born, the latter a Boston Horn Globe Honor Book. His other acclaimed nonfiction titles- Coral Reefs, Redwoods, Gravity, and Island: A Story of the Galapagos-have received numerous starred reviews and other accolades.
His book Grand Canyon was awarded a Caldecott Honor, a Sibert Honor, and the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award. He received the Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in Andrea Wang's Watercress, a Newbery Honor book and APALA award winner. Jason Chin is a celebrated author and illustrator of children's books. Impeccably researched, wholly engrossing, and with extensive backmatter for additional learning, The Universe in You is another knockout from the award-winning creator of Redwoods, Grand Canyon, and other distinguished works of nonfiction for young readers. Like its companion, The Universe in You is a mind-boggling adventure that makes complex science accessible and enjoyable to readers of any age. Now, Chin reverses course, zooming in past our skin to our cells, molecules, and atoms, all the way down to particles so small we can’t yet even measure them. In Your Place in the Universe, Jason Chin zoomed outward, from our planet, solar system, and galaxy to the outer reaches of the observable universe. Jason Chin, winner of the Caldecott Medal for Watercress, dives into the microscopic building blocks of life in this companion to the award-winning Your Place in the Universe.
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