Paru le 19/11/2020 | Relié sous jaquette 223 pages
A partir de 8 ans
pictures by Sara Gillingham
Did you know that everything in the universe - from the distant stars in the sky to the ground under your feet, from the pages of this book to you, the person reading it - is made up of just 92 ingredients ? These ingredients are known as the elements, and they are the building blocks of everything.
In this book you'll meet all the elements that we have discovered so far : the 92 elements found in nature, and an extra 26 elements that have been created by humans. You'll find out what makes every element unique, their roles in the world, and the ingenious uses that we have found for them - from the nitrogen fertilizers that help feed the world to the platinum-based medicines that help to treat cancer ; from the hydrogen used as rocket fuel to the indium in touch screen devices. Once you learn that it takes more elements to build a smartphone than it does to build a human, you'll never look at the things around you in the same way again !
Isabel Thomas is an award-winning science writer and the author of more than 150 books for children. She won the AAAS Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books 2020, and has been shortlisted for the Royal Society's Young People's Book Prize, the Association of Science Education's Book of the Year and the Blue Peter Book Awards. Isabel also creates content for science outreach projects, inspiring children from diverse backgrounds to pursue science careers. She lives in Cambridge, UK, with her husband, three young children and two guinea pigs. You can find more about Isabel and her work at isabelthomas.co.uk.
Sara Gillingham is an award-winning art director and designer who has helped publish hundreds of bestselling books for children, and has written and illustrated over 25 books of her own, including Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Seeing Stars, also published by Phaidon. She lives with her family in Vancouver, Canada. You can find more about Sara and her work at saragillingham.com.
