Alfie, his sister and his mum move to a village where everything seems quiet and boring at first, until the weather starts to behave as though it has a mind of its own: things freeze over in the middle of summer; mini tornadoes appear in glasses of water. Alfie is keen to investigate and is on the lookout for the source of these disturbances – and why wouldn’t he start with the strangest man in the village?
There’s a world of engineering and technology at our fingertips nowadays, but can you explain how a touchscreen works, if robots can think and why diversity in engineering makes our world safer? The latest book in the Cool series does not disappoint in answering these questions and many more and is packed with fantastic facts and exciting experiments.
Did you know that the man behind the computer you use every day also saved millions of lives and helped to shorten World War II by at least two years? That’s what Winston Churchill said anyway. Open this book and discover – bit by bit – the biography of the founding father of modern computer science. Inspiring and educational, this book is a great resource for use in the classroom, as it touches on many aspects of the curriculum: threads of STEM, history and LGBTQ+ education are all seamlessly woven into the narrative.
Once upon an Atom: Questions of Science briskly walks the reader through the fields of chemistry, physics and biology and, finally, what it is to be a scientist. Carter’s rhyming text in this lively picturebook demonstrates a clear passion for all things science. It gives a nice introduction to each field of natural science including examples from each.
Ba dheacair an rud é scéal Mhíp a léamh is gan titim i ngrá leis an róbat beag bídeach seo agus a cuid féiníní. Is é an misean atá tugtha do Mhíp ná taisteal go Mars agus ós rud é go bhfuil scéal Mhíp bunaithe ar fhíorscéal ‘Opportunity’, róbat NASA, tá sé níos suimiúla fós. Rachaidh na léitheoirí, idir óg agus aosta, ar thuras atá greannmhar in amanna, brónach uaireanta, ach ag críoch an leabhair, beidh sonas orthu gur ghlac siad páirt i scéal neamhghnách Mhíp.
What a welcome return from the team behind Search-and-Find The Alphabet of Alphabets, with this new book focusing on numbers. It is as jam-packed and fun as the original, but instead of finding objects beginning with a specific letter, readers must find different amounts of things. This includes finding thirteen different creepy things in a haunted house, making sure there are two of every animal on Noah’s Ark and matching each of America’s fifty states to their two-letter code.
Adults often have a limited stock of questions to put to children, and things can be a little predictable at times. Among the most popular conversation starters, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ must be near the top of the chart. Children can either love or dread this question, depending on how certain they are of their calling or how receptive they think the adult might be to their ideas.
Thanks to this quirky, well-researched, brilliantly written book, children might just be able to confound their questioners with amazing and outlandish answers.
Emmy has just started at a new school, in a new town, and feels very out of tune with her surroundings. Her parents are both accomplished professional musicians, and though Emmy has been taking lessons for years and is passionate about music, she just doesn’t have their talent for performing it.
This beautifully written book follows the story of a baby who was the only survivor of a thunder and lightning storm. The villagers cradled her as the vicious storm claimed their own lives. Mary Anning grows into a courageous young girl as she follows in the steps of her father along the Dorset coastline. She faces danger by hunting for fossils uncovered by waves and landslides and for ancient creatures that have now turned to stone.
From Galileo to Sputnik, The Big Beyond is a short but question-provoking introduction to space travel, galaxy explorers and other stellar mysteries of our universe.
