★Awarded and honored as ‘NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book!’ and ‘Junior Library Guild selection’!
★This exciting series focuses on small moments in science that made a difference, covering AI, pharmacy, ecological balance, Marine biology and other disciplines and research fields
★With rigorous and humorous texts, quaint illustrations, and detailed historical reference at the end of each book, science becomes unprecedently interesting!

8 titles included:
•BURN: Michael Faraday’s Candle
•CLANG! Ernst Chladni’s Sound Experiments
•POLLEN: Darwin’s 130 Year Prediction
•ECLIPSE: How the 1919 Eclipse Proved Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
•EROSION: How Hugh Bennett Saved America’s Soil and Ended the Dust Bowl
•A.I. How Patterns Helped a Machine Defeat Lee Sedol
•MEDICINE: How Traditional Chinese Medicine Helped Tu YouYou Find a
Malaria Treatment
•AQUARIUM: Jeannette Villepreux-Powers Solution for Direct Observation
of Marine Life

COOL SCIENCE THAT WILL AWE KIDS
Solid wax is somehow changed into light and heat. But how? Travel back in time to December 28, 1848 in London, England to one of the most famous juvenile science Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution. British scientist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) encouraged kids to carefully observe a candle and to try to figure out how it burned.

Known as one of the best science experimenters ever, Faraday's passion was always to answer the basic questions of science: "What is the cause? Why does it occur?"

Since Faraday's lecture, "The Chemical History of a Candle," was published in 1861, it's never been out of print. Oddly, till now, it's never been published as a children's picture book. Faraday originally gave seven lectures on how a candle burns. Pattison has adapted the first 6000-word lecture to about 650 words for modern elementary students.

About the Author
Storyteller, writing teacher, Queen of Revisions, and founder of Mims House (www.mimshouse.com) publisher, Darcy Pattison (darcypattison.com/about) has been published in nine languages. Her books, published with Harcourt, Philomel/Penguin, Harpercollins, Arbordale, and Mims House have received recognition for excellence with starred reviews in Kirkus, BCCB and PW. Three nonfiction nature books have been honored as National Science Teacher's Association Outstanding Science Trade books. The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman (Harcourt) received an Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature Honor Book award and has been published in a Houghton Mifflin textbook. The Nantucket Sea Monster (Mims House) is a Junior Library Guild Selection, and a 2018 NCTE Notable Children's Book in Language Arts. She's the 2007 recipient of the Arkansas Governor's Arts Award for Individual Artist for her work in children's literature.