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Marie Curie: Scientist Who Made Glowing Discoveries
(Getting to Know the World's Greatest Scientists & Inventors)
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Meet scientist Marie Curie!
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors and Scientists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the work and contributions of renowned scientists and inventors, combining poignant anecdotes with important factual information for readers (Ag ...more
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors and Scientists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the work and contributions of renowned scientists and inventors, combining poignant anecdotes with important factual information for readers (Ag ...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
September 1st 2008
by Children's Press(CT)
(first published 2008)
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Title: Marie Curie
Author: Mike Venezia
Pages: 32
Lexile level: 840
Recommendations & Comments:
___5 out of 5 stars
Recommendations: Author Mike Venezia delivers an accessible biography of scientist Marie Curie who discovered two chemical elements – polonium and radium. What made these two elements unique was the rays of energy, known as radiation, that they gave off. I like this book because Venezia provides understandable explanations of the science behind Curie’s discoveries while highlighting bo ...more
Author: Mike Venezia
Pages: 32
Lexile level: 840
Recommendations & Comments:
___5 out of 5 stars
Recommendations: Author Mike Venezia delivers an accessible biography of scientist Marie Curie who discovered two chemical elements – polonium and radium. What made these two elements unique was the rays of energy, known as radiation, that they gave off. I like this book because Venezia provides understandable explanations of the science behind Curie’s discoveries while highlighting bo ...more
Mike Venezia has turned his short biographies into an entire cottage industry, churning them out like non-fiction lace doilies or biographical jars of jam.
The text is extremely good, very informative, and a good introduction to the subject. My only quibble is his cartoons. His format is that each volume has a cartoon on the cover, and often it's just not funny. Worse, it is then repeated on the inside, slightly modified and with a different punchline...and it's still not funny. This volume has " ...more
The text is extremely good, very informative, and a good introduction to the subject. My only quibble is his cartoons. His format is that each volume has a cartoon on the cover, and often it's just not funny. Worse, it is then repeated on the inside, slightly modified and with a different punchline...and it's still not funny. This volume has " ...more
Like the last 'Gettin to know' book that I read of Venezia's (Picasso), I was equally impressed with the factual information, mixed with illustrations and historical photos/paintings in a concise form for children and up. I can't wait to have kids so that I can gift them with these books. Until then, there are the nieces and nephews. :)
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super interesting lots and lots of information
This was a good book over all. To me it probably would be better if it was horror or mystery,but if you were looking for a good resource for a project I would definitely recommend this to you. It probably could've had more info about the pitchblend and where it came from but other than that I would say that it was a good book.
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It was a good book overall. I gave it 4 stars because it could have better info about were Marie Curie got the pitchblend. The book tossed in a few jokes that were funny. Definitely I would recommend this to a little kid that wants to learn about Marie Curie. She was a very smart woman. I think this book would inspire young girls to go out and discover all sort of stuff, I would read more by this author she is a good one.
It's a good book if you want to find out where X-ray machine were first made.
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