9-12 years. For everyone who has enjoyed the many ‘Horrible Science’ titles, this is a packed single volume touching on everything from Bloodthirsty Bugs to the Unbelievable Universe. Knowing their audience well, Nick Arnold and Tony de Saulles revel in the gruesome details – there are lots of gory pictures full of dripping blood - but not at the expense of making sure the science is accurate and comprehensible. Very much a first introduction rather than an in-depth study, this provides a useful resource to short circuit all those ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions.
Taking a journey from the very small, to the very big, this book - in full colour - takes readers on a glorious tour of everything in science from the smallest thing ever to the horribly huge universe. Individual chapters cover atoms, molecules, light and sound, microbes, diseases, bugs, humans and the body, animals, the earth and outer space.
Horrible Science author, Nick Arnold, has been writing books and stories since he was a lad. Even in those days his favourite subjects for stories were horrible goings-on, the more gruesome the better! So you see, he hasn't changed a bit!
Nick's first published books appeared when he was working at the University of North London on a project teaching children about nature. This led to a magazine article and then, one day, Nick had a brilliant idea. He said to himself:
"If I can write newspaper articles, then I can write books for other publishers too!"
