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I do like the originality of this concept, especially since I do enjoy math and science.
Hats off to the author for taking an advanced topic and introducing it in a beautifully simple way.
However, I can't help but wonder who this book is really for?
Hats off to the author for taking an advanced topic and introducing it in a beautifully simple way.
However, I can't help but wonder who this book is really for?
I think I get it? I'm still not quite sure *exactly* what a quark is, but I definitely liked the parallels the book drew between atoms and molecules and building a tower out of blocks!
Will definitely be buying this series for my little one!
Will definitely be buying this series for my little one!
We reread this recently again on the request of the Moongazer (Where the qorks? Mummy read qorks. Please qorks.) and this time around it was a thoroughly enjoyable and fascinating experience for both the hubster and I. Not that it wasn't fun before but it was really great to see in practice what I've read about the importance of introducing kids to STEM language as early as possible. The little dude was fully involved with reading about atoms and protons and electrons, and remembered the water molecule when we came to the pic of the water molecule and then associated that with his water bottle. We kinda freaked out whenever he remembered stuff from the book because it was ages since we read it to him. When I asked him what everything in the world is made of, he says, "atoms." That's not because he is a genius or anything, it's just because in addition to reading Pip the Puppy and Lizzy the Lamb, we happen to read to him about quarks too. Why do we feel that babies, toddlers, and older kids should only be exposed to words about cars, or farm animals, or colours, or Disney? They're little sponges and introducing them to the language of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics just means that when they encounter the more detailed aspects of STEM later in their lives, the words will already be familiar to them thereby making these subjects feel like old friends. When I was younger, I did not even know of the existence of quarks or the fact that everything in the whole world, including myself, is made up of atoms. I want my little guys to be exposed to all the wonders of this world and nature's building blocks fall smack bang in the category of wondrous.
Short little book about how the world is made up of atoms and molecules, which in turn are made up of neutrons, protons, and and electrons; these are made up of quarks.
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