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A review by xterminal
The Periodic Table: Elements with Style! by Adrian Dingle, Simon Basher
3.0
Peter Dingle, The Periodic Table: Elements with Style! (Kingfisher, 2007)
I was completely bummed out, and I mean completely, that Yttrium gets barely a mention in this book. Barely a mention! While this does make me question how well Dingle actually knows his audience (any aspiring science geek is going to love an element whose name begins with the letter Y, at least judging by my junior-high science classes), the book as a whole is still fun. As one would expect from the title, it's a high-level overview of various elements (though it's not complete, obviously. The biggest deficiency is in the radioactive world; the only element higher than uranium to get a page to itself is plutonium) with doodle-like superhero characters who illustrate, sometimes subtly, some of the properties of the element in question. Should be good for the 4-8 set, though I'd think once you get older than that, they'll want material that goes into a little more detail. And contains information on Yttrium. ***
I was completely bummed out, and I mean completely, that Yttrium gets barely a mention in this book. Barely a mention! While this does make me question how well Dingle actually knows his audience (any aspiring science geek is going to love an element whose name begins with the letter Y, at least judging by my junior-high science classes), the book as a whole is still fun. As one would expect from the title, it's a high-level overview of various elements (though it's not complete, obviously. The biggest deficiency is in the radioactive world; the only element higher than uranium to get a page to itself is plutonium) with doodle-like superhero characters who illustrate, sometimes subtly, some of the properties of the element in question. Should be good for the 4-8 set, though I'd think once you get older than that, they'll want material that goes into a little more detail. And contains information on Yttrium. ***