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“Some parts of it are just fascinating. I was looking at the eyelash mites earlier, with this wonderful picture of the tails of the little mites sticking out of a follicle. As adults, we often don’t like to think about the slightly grosser side of things, but that’s life, it’s our life and it’s important to understand it. And the book has got wonderful, wonderful pictures.” Read more...
The Best Science Books for Kids: the 2019 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
Sheila Rowan, Physicist
Our most recommended books
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Harry Potter: the Complete Series
by J.K. Rowling -
Carrie's War
Nina Bawden, Alan Marks (illustrator) -
Danny Champion of the World
by Roald Dahl -
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
by E L Konigsburg -
Inventors: Incredible Stories of the World's Most Ingenious Inventions
by Robert Winston & Jessamy Hawke (illustrator) -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll