★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★With rigorous and humorous texts, quaint illustrations, and detailed historical reference at the end of each book, science becomes unprecedently interesting!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

In 1915, British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington was fascinated with Einstein's new theory of general relativity. The theory talks about how forces push and pull objects in space. Einstein said that the sun's gravity could pull and bend light.

To test this, astronomers decided to photograph a solar eclipse. The eclipse would allow them to photograph the stars before and during the solar eclipse. If the star's position moved, then it was evidence that that light had bent. Eddington and his team traveled from England to the island of Principe, just off the African coast, to photograph the eclipse.

In simple language, this nonfiction illustrated picture book explains how the push (acceleration) and pull (gravity) of space affects light.

Back matter includes information on Einstein, Eddington, and the original photograph of the 1919 solar eclipse.

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.