Science Toons: Sound and Light
Will be published approx. on 13. August 2026
Book
Hardback
32 pages
978-1-5263-2937-0 (ISBN)
Description
Funny comic strips combine with facts to help children engage with the science of sound and light.
Packed with comic strips, fun facts, and easy-to-understand diagrams, this book makes learning about the science of sound and light, both educational and entertaining. Meet funny characters who explain how light travels, what reflections are, how pitch and tone relate to sound waves and more.
Perfect for children aged 7 plus, the Science Toons series turns science into an adventure with colourful comic illustrations and laugh-out-loud moments. Titles in the series: The Human Body / Animals and Plants / Changing States / Materials / Planet Earth / Space / Sound and Light / Forces and Motion.
Packed with comic strips, fun facts, and easy-to-understand diagrams, this book makes learning about the science of sound and light, both educational and entertaining. Meet funny characters who explain how light travels, what reflections are, how pitch and tone relate to sound waves and more.
Perfect for children aged 7 plus, the Science Toons series turns science into an adventure with colourful comic illustrations and laugh-out-loud moments. Titles in the series: The Human Body / Animals and Plants / Changing States / Materials / Planet Earth / Space / Sound and Light / Forces and Motion.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Children's Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 7 years
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 290 mm
Width: 219 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5263-2937-0 (9781526329370)
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Tom Jackson has written more than 80 books and contributed to hundreds more. His specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Tom spends his days finding fun ways of communicating facts, new and old, to all age groups and reading abilities. Tom lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and three children. He studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working at zoos. Tom has also worked as a conservationist, which saw him planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing wildlife from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing has also taken him to the Galapagos Islands, Amazon rainforest, coral reefs of Indonesia and Sahara Desert. Nowadays, he can be found mainly in the attic. Abby Bulmer is a freelance cartoonist based in Manchester who has worked in comics, book illustration and animation. Her early work in UK comics included colouring work for 2000AD on Judge Dredd and Kingdom, and illustration work for characters like the Powerpuff Girls, Moshi Monsters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Angry Birds. Abby is now a regular artist for The Phoenix and has also works as a television storyboard artist.