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80 pp.
| Quarto/MoonDance
| September, 2017
|
TradeISBN 978-1-63322-158-1$14.95
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4-6
Illustrated by
Emily Bornoff.
You can't always trust your brain! That's the message of this psychology and neuroscience book, demonstrated through sensory illusions, magic tricks, and scams. Kids may have seen some of these before, but with lots of hands-on (or brains-on) activities and lively cartoon illustrations, they'll find plenty here to entertain themselves as they acquire some good tips for thinking critically. Glos., ind.
(4)
4-6
Illustrated by
Anthony Owsley.
Hokey narrative caricatures of Galileo, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein join fictional physicist Dr. Dazz in presenting twenty-five physics experiments (some requiring an "adult sidekick") in seven themed chapters (e.g., "Take That, Gravity!"). Accompanied by cartoony illustrations, the experiments use mostly everyday items, and a "Science Behind the Stunt" explanation follows each; additional asides address tangential physical science topics. Glos., ind.