
A Short, Illustrated History of... Scientific Discoveries
$38.57
- Hardcover
48 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2020
Summary
If your kids are fed up with learning the names of kings and queens or dates of battles, then this is the history book for them. This book only contains some of the most brilliant discoveries in history. No rubbish diagrams or grainy photos - just really cool facts, intriguing people and of course the best eureka moments - all beautifully illustrated.
It includes, Archimedes leaping out of the bath as he discovered volume, the correct order of the solar system, the theory of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781445169071 |
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| ISBN-10: | 144516907X |
| Author: | Clive Gifford, Rita Petruccioli |
| Publisher: | Hachette Children's Group |
| Imprint: | Franklin Watts Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 256mm x 194mm x 10mm |
| Series: | A Short, Illustrated History of... |
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About The Author
Clive Gifford
Clive Gifford (Author)
Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children’s books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards’ Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee.
Rita Petruccioli (Illustrator)
Rita Petruccioli was born in Rome in 1982. She attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and ENSAD in Paris. Her works have been exhibited in Italy, France, Germany and South Korea. She works as an illustrator and comic book artist for different projects including advertising, magazines, textile design and children books. She has collaborated with different publishers such as Mondadori, Bao Publishing, Einaudi, Ladybird, Timbuktu Lab, Auzou, ELI, Lavieri, La Nuova Frontiera Junior, Il Castoro and Laterza. When she is not drawing she is engaged in workshops on gender stereotypes in comics.
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