Evolution: The story of life on Earth by Jay Hosler, Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon.The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA by Mark Schultz, Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon. Feynman by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick.Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm.The Boy who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős by Deborah Heiligman and LeUyen Pham.Primates: The fearless science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas by Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks.On a beam of light: A story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne and Vladimir Radunsky.How to fake a moon landing: Exposing the myths of science denial by Darryl Cunningham.Survive! Inside the Human Body graphic novel series.Darwin: A Graphic Biography and Mind Afire: The Visions of Tesla.It's Catching: The Infectious World of Germs and Microbes by Jennifer Gardy and Josh Holinaty.Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey by Nick Bertozzi.Climate Changed: A Personal Journey through the Science by Philippe Squarzoni.The Incredible Plate Tectonics Comic: The Adventures of Geo, Vol.Other science graphic novels and illustrated books I have reviewed: Providence: American Mathematical Society, 2014. While admirable, this book needed to either make the content more appropriate to the format or change the format to something that would appeal to older kids, like the Survive! series I reviewed a while back. Younger kids may appreciate the artwork, but all but the very most precocious will find the level too high for most of the book. So while I would definitely recommend this book for mathematically inclined and interested from the ages 10 and up, I would caution that they may look at you funny because the book does very much look like it's aimed at younger kids. Really, books with a similar look and format are often aimed at very young children, under 5 even.īut the context itself, especially by the second half of the book seems more appropriate for 10 and older. The book itself, with its size, sparse text, simple vocabulary and colourfully childish and wacky art seems aimed at perhaps the under 10 set. I think the confusion for me comes in the format of the book versus the age range it seems to be aiming for. Schwartz does a commendable job of taking the concepts surrounding Really Big Numbers and explaining them in a fairly comprehensible format, from simple counting to very high numbers, visual representation of big numbers, conceptual representations when there's no more space for dots on the page, an explanation of powers of 10 all the way to tree stuctures and networks, recursion, plexing and really big numbers. A kids book that takes some fairly advanced mathematical concepts and presents them in a lively, engaging and understandable format. Richard Evan Schwartz's Really Big Numbers has a great premise.
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