The Usborne Little Encyclopedia of Science

by Felicity Brooks, Anna Claybourne, Carrie A. Seay

Introduces major topics in the sciences, and suggests related activities.

Genres: Science

64 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

Felicity Brooks is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked as an actor, teacher and lexicographer (someone who compiles dictionaries) before starting work in children’s publishing in the late 1980s.

She has written and edited hundreds of children’s books, including stories and novelty books for pre-schoolers and books about history, geography, languages, science, maths, nature and the arts.

Her books have won the TES Senior Information Book Award, the Aventis Science Books Prize, the SLA Information Book Award, the Sheffield Baby Books Award and Practical Pre-school Gold and Silver Awards.

Reviews

[Ria · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolutely brilliant book and NOT just for kids, things are explained in such simple ways I think adults would also find this interesting as opposed to all the technical jargon used for text books.
Cells, atoms, plants, magnets, weather, animals, chemicals and many other topics are covered alongside colour drawings, diagrams and photographs to emphasise points.

[Deanna Sutter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent little book to cover a variety of science topics on a simple level. I would say this is an excellent little book for the 6-8 year old range. I have this book in the "mini" version so it's compact and my kids can easily pack it around.