The beauty of the artwork in this book reflects the tradition in Islamic art of evoking the sacred through pattern and shape. Each page turn leads us to a world of discovery. There is a mixture of painted and digital elements that merge wonderfully. At the end of the book we are told that each spread depicts a different country from around the world with a corresponding rich variety of art, architecture and culture.
Shapes Colours Numbers is a silent, ritualistic, revelatory book. Created by Dario Zeruto, a Cuban artist trained in mechanical engineering, the book-object plays with the very idea of its materiality. With great ceremony we open the book; first we remove the sleeve, then open a page right-left, which reveals the sole sentence of the book – a direction on how to proceed. We then open a page left-right and the book begins.
3.2.1 GO! is like no other counting book for young children around just now. In this animal Olympics, we see 5 pandas practising martial arts, a fox on the tennis court with 16 spare sweatbands and 8 monkeys doing what they do best – swinging between the rings in the gymnasium. From 1 up to 20 and all the way back down again, it’s almost exhausting trying to keep up with this lively bunch!
Trees have long been considered nearly sacred, as they provide food, medicine, shelter, shade, natural materials and, most importantly, oxygen. More than just nature-lovers and tree-huggers will be happy with what lies beneath the unnaturally bright cover of Under the Canopy: Trees Around the World.
A Moment In Time is beautiful and inventive, but a little challenging to use. Described as a perpetual atlas, it claims that the reader can discover what the whole world is doing at exactly the same time. Well, sort of. The unusual layout allows you to compare 6am in one place with 6am in another place, but finding out what is happening when it is, say, 6am where you are and a different time elsewhere, takes a bit of working out.
Leabhar den scoth is ea an scéal mistéireach seo, Sárú. Coinníonn sé tú ag smaoineamh agus ag tuar an t-am ar fad agus ní raibh mé in ann é a chur síos sular shroich mé deireadh na mistéire teicneolaíochta. Scéal nuálach é atá oiriúnach do pháiste nó do dhéagóir ar bith a thuigeann cé chomh héasca is atá sé a bheith gafa le cluiche idirlín.
As a child, Libby Jackson would look up at the night sky and dream. She didn’t think a UK citizen could ever work in the space industry, but she studied hard at school, nurturing her passion for puzzle-solving and computers. Now she’s a leading expert in human space flight. Her book shares her story, and those of many other bold women who pushed beyond the barriers placed before them because of gender, race, class and nationality.
Doing exactly as the title suggests, this book is perfect for anyone who is about to venture into the exciting world of coding. Although coding may appear daunting to those who know little about it, Jim Christian, author, developer and consultant, shows that coding doesn’t have to be something to be afraid of.
Lorna Scobie’s beautiful illustrations bring this book alive. Working in watercolour, she has created realistic drawings of mammals, birds, fish, insects and plant life, but all have an engaging picturebook quality that will encourage the reader to imagine the animals outside the book. This engaging quality is fully realised by the storytelling features of the accompanying narrative.
This enthralling graphic novel is a follow-up to Neurocomic, with which it shares many traits. Primarily, they demonstrate that the graphic format is ideal for making complex biological systems comprehensible to all. Both catapult protagonists on journeys through the human body, narrated via sequential monochrome panels with or without text. The hand-drawn imagery is hallucinatory and largely composed of accurately rendered biological diagrams.
