You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Dirt!

by Ian Graham, Mark Bergin (Illustrations)

Could you get by if the lights went out? What would you do if your TV, computer, and phone all stopped working? How would you get about if trains, buses, and cars didnt run any more? You might not think about it, but without electricity, our lives would be colder, darker, and much harder work. With this book as your guide, youll discover the wonders of this essential source, exploring everything from how electricity works, to the ingenious ways that people have controlled and used it throughout the ages. With its informative timeline, helpful you can do it tips and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations, this title in the fantastic new You Wouldnt Want to Live Without series is a must-have nonfiction text, perfect for home or school. The well-organized text in this title allows readers to explore relationships between historic scientific events. Grade-appropriate contexts help readers determine the meaning of academic words and phrases while the vivid illustrations and text features help navigate the text and locate answers to questions.

Genres: Science, Childrens, Nonfiction

40 pages, Library Binding

Published February 1, 2016

About the author

After working as an in-house journalist and editor in consumer electronics magazines, Ian Graham became a freelance writer. He has written more than 230 illustrated non-fiction books for children and teens, and contributed chapters to books including Dorling Kindersley’s Know it All and Big Ideas that Changed the World. He has a degree in applied physics and a postgraduate diploma in journalism.

Reviews

[Sandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book in a great series of books. My Kindergartener and I are exploring dirt and how vital it is to our world. This book definitely has a lot of information to share. We do one or two sections a day. Any more than that and there would be too much to try to absorb in one day.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Learned more about dirt from this book than I really cared to know. Good primer about the function of dirt (soil).

[KrisLynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great information and lots to read. A little too much for 6yo but good for research paper for 8yo.

[Ad Astra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not only do I love this series, but this book really hit it out of the park for me as an adult. I learned quite a bit and will never look at dirt the same way!

[Ms. Whitaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute and so infomative. Kids will love the format and pictures

[Koravat(Ing) Vidhayapat · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is good it fits everything I learnt about soil in a short book and it isn't boring