For today I have a few posters for reading around the Sciences. There are some really cool books around that make Science engaging and visual. Of course as well it’s really cool when authors manage to weave science into fiction – like the Simon Mayo “Itchcraft” action books about an element hunter – which is a little about art following real life as one of my favourite science writers Theodore Gray has the most amazing periodic table table.

For Physics, a few I’d like to highlight are “Particle Physics Brick by Brick” – using Lego to explain particle physics, (I love the use of lego to explain anything!) the new graphic novel version of Bomb and “The Universe in You” – again using picture books to explain complex concepts is just brilliant.

In Biology I just love the “Cells at Work” manga series – which now come in “Baby” and “Code Black” to cater for the lower and higher ends of readers. At another point I’ll make a poster specifically for genetics and DNA as there are a bunch of memoirs and fiction stories about people with genetic disorders.

The books of Theodore Gray around elements, atoms, molecules and reactions are just the coolest, and when my kids were younger I remember spending forever with them playing around with his app on the iPad. For the students who are into the current mystery craze Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce novels combine the chemistry of poison with cosy mysteries.

Do you have any favourite science books?

By Nadine Bailey – middle school teacher librarian, currently living and working in Dubai, formerly in Beijing China, Singapore and a bunch of other cities around the world. Passionate about our students seeing themselves and their worlds in literature and developing curiosity and a passion for reading and learning.

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