Am I Made of Stardust?
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Chelen Écija (illustrator)
🏆 Winner of the 2023 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
Recommendations from our site
“This is a lovely book. One of the Royal Society people who is in this field and does outreach was saying these are exactly the kind of questions children ask him all the time. It has really good detail, with good experiments in it. Again, it’s intended for children in the 8-11 age range…the judging panel felt that it was a well-judged book with very rich content.” Read more...
The Best Science Books for Children: the 2023 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
Usha Goswami, Psychologist
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