Green: The Story of Plant Life on Our Planet
Nicola Davies, illustrated by Emily Sutton
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“The visual language of science can be beautiful. I was particularly drawn to a picture of a cross-section of a leaf. It is visually fun, but actually it’s very similar to the sorts of diagrams that you get in a biology textbook… This is very scientific, the idea of a diagram that takes us from something we can see to things we can’t see, and how the things that we can’t see fit together.” Read more...
Best New Science Books for Children: Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize 2025
Tamsin Mather, Scientist
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