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Basher Science Mini
Basher Science Mini: Pandemic
Pandemics have swept around the world for centuries, and now Covid-19 is the scary new kid in town, a real bully and a threat to the health, happiness, and livelihoods of people from every nation. Kids need real science information about the virus that has kept them away from school, kept their parents away from work, and may even have harmed or killed people they know and love. And they want information about how to deal with their feelings, too. The pandemic has brought sadness but it's also shown how resilient and adaptable humans are. The Basher mix of science and humor makes these difficult times less frightening by providing approachable and easily understandable information in a format kids know and love.
Basher's distinctive, colorful illustrations and Tom Jackson's lively engaging text will demystify pandemics, while informing kids about the coronavirus that has changed their lives.
Perfect for home or school, Basher's highly original books make difficult concepts tangible and understandable. Chatty first-person text and stylish, contemporary character illustrations give a voice, personality, and story to each topic--a brilliant way to communicate science.
Basher's distinctive, colorful illustrations and Tom Jackson's lively engaging text will demystify pandemics, while informing kids about the coronavirus that has changed their lives.
Perfect for home or school, Basher's highly original books make difficult concepts tangible and understandable. Chatty first-person text and stylish, contemporary character illustrations give a voice, personality, and story to each topic--a brilliant way to communicate science.
- GenresNonfiction
64 pages, Paperback
Published May 4, 2021
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9 people want to read
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Tom Jackson
655 books59 followers"I'm a non-fiction author and project editor (plus I do a bit of journalism). I'm available for project development, writing, project management and I also work as a packager. Click on the links above to see examples of my work.
But first some background: Over the last 20 years, I've written books, magazine and newspaper articles, for online and for television. I get to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, my specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. I've worked on projects with Brian May, Patrick Moore, Marcus de Sautoy and Carol Vorderman and for major international publishers, such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, Scholastic, Hachette, Facts on File and BBC Magazines.
I spend my days finding fun ways of communicating all kinds of facts, new and old, to every age group and reading ability. I live in Bristol, England, with my wife and three children. I studied zoology at Bristol University and have had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. I used to be something of a conservationist, which included planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing buffaloes from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken me to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rainforest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, I can be found mainly in the attic."
~http://tomjackson.weebly.com/
But first some background: Over the last 20 years, I've written books, magazine and newspaper articles, for online and for television. I get to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, my specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. I've worked on projects with Brian May, Patrick Moore, Marcus de Sautoy and Carol Vorderman and for major international publishers, such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, Scholastic, Hachette, Facts on File and BBC Magazines.
I spend my days finding fun ways of communicating all kinds of facts, new and old, to every age group and reading ability. I live in Bristol, England, with my wife and three children. I studied zoology at Bristol University and have had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. I used to be something of a conservationist, which included planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing buffaloes from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken me to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rainforest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, I can be found mainly in the attic."
~http://tomjackson.weebly.com/
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March 25, 2025
Informative. Published in 2021 so fairly Covid-19 focused, but with information about other kinds of pandemics/epidemics as well (such as cholera, flu, ebola, and HIV).
The book is organized as though the situation is some sort of card game and talks through the different types of "cards" in groups, but that literary device isn't well explained at the beginning, so the book is a bit confusing until you figure out what the author is doing.
But the info is good and the artwork is cute.
The book is organized as though the situation is some sort of card game and talks through the different types of "cards" in groups, but that literary device isn't well explained at the beginning, so the book is a bit confusing until you figure out what the author is doing.
But the info is good and the artwork is cute.
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