Best of 2019 : Children's Books about Science and Technology - Christchurch City LibrariesLike this list

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• Scientist in Training

  Ard, Cath

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  Packed with bitesize information. This will teach you all about season, forces, life cycles and much more.

• Astronomy for Kids

  How to Explore Outer Space With Binoculars, a Telescope, or Just Your Eyes!

  Betts, Bruce

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  "One of the cool thing about outer space is that anyone can explore it. All you have do is go outside and look up."

• Rocket to the Moon!

  Brown, Don, 1949-

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  Start of a graphic novel series that celebrated the hard won success of ideas that ultimately changed the world.

• When Sue Found Sue

  Sue Hendrickson Discovers Her T. Rex

  Buzzeo, Toni, 1951-

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  On a dig in South Dakota, Sue discovered something bigger than she ever imagined, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever unearthed.

• How Big Is Big? How Far Is Far? All Around Me

  Cen, Jun

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  Did you know that a colossal squid's eyeball is bigger than a basket ball, or that your sneeze shoots out faster than a hurricane?

• Amazing Evolution

  the Journey of Life

  Claybourne, Anna

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  Explores what evolution is, how it works and who discovered its secrets. This book takes complex scientific ideas and theories to make them fun and understandable.

• Why Does the Earth Need the Moon?

  Dennie, Devin

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  Explore the science behind more than 200 questions about our planet.

• Around the World in 80 Ways

  Drane, Henrietta

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  Travel around the world by yacht, tram, train, unicycle, jetpack, camel... any way you can imagine.

• Volcanoes and Earthquakes

  Ell, Gordon, 1939-2021

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  Here in striking and clear terms are the earth movements above and below New Zealand - with investigation into the history of volcanic and earthquake activity, leading to the present-day status for the country. Written with Gordon's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Explanatorium of Science

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  With amazing photography that shows and explains how chemistry, physics, and biology work. Watch as mixtures merge and matter changes state. Discover how some chemical changes can be reversed, yet others can't, and why some reactions go…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Science You Can Eat

  Putting What We Eat Under the Microscope

  Gates, Stefan

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  Science You Can Eat helps you understand what's happening with our food and why.

• The Book of Big Science Ideas

  Hardy, Freya

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  A beautifully illustrated celebration of science. The Book of Big Science Ideas looks at 15 brilliant science ideas and more than 50 ingenious thinkers who have helped shape our understanding of the world - whether they were right or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The School of Numbers

  Hawkins, Emily

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  Climb aboard the 'Starship Infinity' and get ready for an intergalactic adventure through the universe of maths.

• Dinosaur Hunter

  Joan Wiffen's Awesome Fossil Discoveries

  Hill, David, 1942-

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  This is the remarkable true story of a science superstar who made ground-breaking discoveries about ancient New Zealand.

• Amazing Transport

  Journey Through the History of Transport

  Jackson, Tom, 1972-

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  Fasten your seat belts and get ready to zoom through the history of transport and discover incredible facts about all kinds of vehicles along the way.

• Life

  the First Four Billion Years

  Jenkins, Martin, 1959-

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  Spectacular book that looks at the story of life from the big bang to the evolution of humans and the captivating story of our planet.

• How to Be An Astronaut and Other Space Jobs

  Kanani, Sheila

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  There are so many different space jobs to discover, from being an astronaut or a spacecraft engineer, to finding new plantets where one day maight be able to live.

• Shark Lady

  the True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist

  Keating, Jess

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  Eugenie wished everyone could see sharks through her eyes. She thought they were beautiful. She was smart enough to be a scientist and brave enough to explore the oceans

• Plastic

  Past, Present, and Future

  Kim, Eun Ju

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  Where does all the plastic waste go? Journey through the life cycle of plastic - how plastics are produced, the many uses of plastics throughout the last century, how our plastic use has spiralled out of control, and what we can do about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vast Wonder of the World

  Biologist Ernest Everett Just

  Mangal, Mélina

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  Presents the life and accomplishments of the scientist, whose keen observations of sea creatures revealed new insights about egg cells and the origins of life.