Learn about science through reading books that bring the subject alive.
General Science
- From Atoms to Infinity: 88 Great Ideas in Science (John and Mary Gribbin) UK
- Q is for Quark: a Science Alphabet Book (David Schwarz)
History of Science
- Inventing the Future: the Scientists Who Changed Our World (John and Mary Gribbin) - also published as Dazzling Discoveries UK
- Discovering Dinosaurs (Valerie Wilding) - Scholastic Double Take series UK
Inventions
- I for Invention: Stories and Facts Behind Everyday Inventions (Meredith Hooper) UK
- Mistakes that Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions and How They Came to Be (Charlotte Foltz Jones) UK
- Accidents May Happen: 50 Inventions Discovered by Mistake (Charlotte Foltz Jones) UK
Maths
- Essential Arithmetricks (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
- Fractions and Averages: the Mean and Vulgar Bits (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
- The Phantom X (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
- Numbers, the Key to the Universe (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
- Codes: How to Make Them and Break Them (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
- Desperate Measures (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
- The Fiendish Angletron (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths)
- Vicious Circles and Other Savage Shapes (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
- Do You Feel Lucky? The Secrets of Probability (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
- The Perfect Sausage and Other Fundamental Formulas (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
- The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat (Theoni Pappas)
- Further Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat (Theoni Pappas)
- The Number Devil (Hans Magnus Enzensberger)
- G is for Googol: a Math Alphabet Book (David Schwarz)
Physics
- Archimedes and the Door of Science (Jeanne Bendick)Science Through Literature (The Bookworm)
- Adventures with Electricity: Benjamin Franklin's Story (Beverley Birch)
- Marconi's Battle for Radio (Beverley Birch)
- The Time and Space of Uncle Albert (Russell Stannard) UK
- Uncle Albert and the Quantum Quest (Russell Stannard) UK
- Black Holes and Uncle Albert (Russell Stannard) UK
- Time Travel for Beginners (John and Mary Gribbin) UK
Astronomy
- Our Universe (Russell Stannard) UK
Chemistry- The Mystery of the Periodic Table (Ben Wiker)
- The Periodic Table: Elements with Style (Adrian Birch)
- Marie Curie's Search for Radium (Beverley Birch
Human Body and Medicine
- Galen and the Gateway to Medicine (Jeanne Bendick)
- Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes (Beverley Birch)
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