Rocket Science for Babies (Baby University)

by Chris Ferrie (Author)

Rocket Science for Babies (Baby University)
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Series: Baby University

Fans of Chris Ferrie's ABCs of BiologyABCs of Space, and Quantum Physics for Babies will love this introduction to aerospace engineering for babies and toddlers!

Help your future genius become the smartest baby in the room! It only takes a small spark to ignite a child's mind.

Written by an expert, Rocket Science for Babies is a colorfully simple introduction to aerospace engineering. Babies (and grownups!) will learn about the basics of how lift and thrust make things fly. With a tongue-in-cheek approach that adults will love, this installment of the Baby University board book series is the perfect way to introduce basic concepts to even the youngest scientists. After all, it's never too early to become a rocket scientist!

If you're looking for engineer board books, infant science books, or more Baby University board books to surprise your little one, look no further! Rocket Science for Babies offers fun early learning for your little scientist!

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Gr 5 Up--Ostensibly aimed at toddlers but more serviceable as stealth instruction for older students and caregivers who are a bit hazy on the basics of quantum and Newtonian physics, these board books attempt to explain concepts such as black holes, how rockets and airfoils work, and how energy--measured in quanta--moves electrons only to specific orbits around an atomic nucleus. In General Relativity, for instance, Ferrie, a physicist, uses grids and dots that are color-coded to words in the pithy captions to demonstrate how "mass drags space" and "space drags mass" and ultimately how two black holes spinning around each other "send ripples through space called gravitational waves" that "stretch and squish space throughout the universe." Each of these four outings (and there are more on the way) ends with an optimistic variation on "Now you know GENERAL RELATIVITY!" Not quite...but the taste may make the physical laws and phenomena on which our current understanding of reality is based more easily palatable when next encountered down the road. VERDICT As with Ruth Spiro's Baby Loves Quarks!, the topical reach is well beyond the grasp of even the most precocious young Einsteins, but their parents or older siblings may benefit from these quick refreshers.--John Peters, Children's Literature Consultant, New York

Copyright 2017 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Start 'em young with this STEM-centric board-book that promotes science literacy — Los Angeles Times

Chris Ferrie
Chris Ferrie is a physicist, mathematician and father of three budding young scientists. He obtained his doctorate in Mathematical Physics from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada and currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Chris believes it is never too early to introduce children to the wild and wonderful world of physics!
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781492656258
Lexile Measure
350
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Sourcebooks Explore
Publication date
May 02, 2017
Series
Baby University
BISAC categories
JNF013000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Concepts | General
JNF051010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science
JNF048000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Reference | General
JNF051000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | General
Library of Congress categories
Board books
Astronautics
Rocketry

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