About the book
Why is breakfast cereal magnetic? Could you turn wee into gold? How does sand help us see?
The answers have one thing in common – ELEMENTS! Elements are the building blocks that make up EVERYTHING we see, touch and taste. You’ll be amazed at how many there are to explore from the moment you wake up to the second you drift off to sleep (no matter how long past your bedtime it is!).
Inside everything from cereal, cars and cakes to toilet paper, pencils and torches – come and meet the extraordinary elements that make YOUR day!
ISBN: 9780008712594
What did the judges think?
Hiba Noor Khan, award-winning children's book author and former physics teacher, said: “The humour, bizarreness and wonder of this book is just fantastic. It does a great job at introducing something that every child is going to study at school and that can often be quite dull.”
About the author and illustrator
After her master’s degree in chemistry, briefly worked as a science teacher but since then has been a documentary maker, where she has worked on both the production and development of a wide range of science films, including Einstein and The Bomb on Netflix, and science inserts for The One Show. She is currently developing a series of short popular science films. Samantha is based in London.
Based in Beijing, majored in stage design at the city’s Central Academy of Drama, but her passion for painting has led to a highly successful career in illustration.
Samantha Lewis
