Best children science biographies according to redditors
We found 10 Reddit comments discussing the best children science biographies. We ranked the 7 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 10 Reddit comments discussing the best children science biographies. We ranked the 7 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Try anything by Mary Roach. Her nonfiction books cover a variety of science topics and are interspersed with her stories about traveling to the studied locations and misadventures with equipment like space toilets.
If you want to combine nonfiction, travel, and graphic novels, I'd heartily recommend Primates, which just came out. It's about Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, and Birute Galdikas (who is always forgotten), arguably the most influential great ape researchers of all time.
You can buy the book on Amazon
Albert Einstein and His Inflatable Universe
Some time ago, I bought this for my little sister and now she worships Einstein. The illustrations by Phillip Reeve (of Mortal Engines fame) as well as the humorous tone of the book makes it perfect for a 10 yr old. Go give it a try!
> Is that what they're making 4th graders do book reports on nowadays? That's pretty astounding. In 4th grade I was lucky if I could understand White Fang.
Nah, you're just an imbecile who thinks that just because something happened for you that it must mean the entire nation is like that.
But yes. /u/poiumty just learned how to read in 4th grade, so other kids around the country must be just as uneducated as him.
A couple ape examples off the top of my head: the librarian orangutan in The Color of Magic and the various chimeras in Daughter of Smoke and Bone. And Planet of the Apes, of course.
If you're going to use nonhumans, I would much rather see them acting like nonhumans. If you want a quick read to pick up some ape behaviors, check out the graphic novel Primates (science, not fantasy).
"He was a baboon" totally makes sense, but you could also twist it so that characters were calling him that when he's another species and they're just calling attention to whatever stereotypical traits they think baboons have.
> I have no proper hobbies (like science)
Go do yourself a favor and borrow/buy a Horrible Science book. Also, borrow or buy (it's Horribly Famous instead of Dead Famous now though) http://www.amazon.com/Albert-Einstein-Inflatable-Universe-Famous/dp/0439992168 since most of it is about relativity, which has a lot to do with light and time-travel.
[Helen Greiner: Cofounder of iRobot Corporation (Innovators)]
(http://www.amazon.com/Helen-Greiner-Cofounder-Corporation-Innovators/dp/0737744049/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330875019&sr=1-3&tag=bookforyoudm-20)
> Can't light's behavior be solely modeled as a wave?
Only at macroscopic scales can light be "solely" described as a wave. Quantum Electrodynamics has already shown that light can be solely described in terms of particles only. (IMHO,) Q.E.D. is a completed theory.
> Why do we think it even needs to be a particle?
> What behavior of light is solely a property of a particle and not a wave?
This is green in color!
https://www.amazon.com/Primates-Fearless-Science-Goodall-Galdikas/dp/1596438657