Description: "Visual learners rejoice! A world-renowned photographer imagines the intersection of art, science, and the ordinary-extraordinary world around us in a stunning work of interactive nonfiction. Enlisting readers to "be the scientist" through vivid fine-art photographs, internationally acclaimed science photographer Felice Frankel zooms in and out on beautiful and brilliant moments all around us to reveal the chemical, natural, or physical processes--from viscosity and venation to chlorophyll and capillary action--behind scientific phenomena. Organized into five thematic sections that explore light and shadow, form, surfaces, traces left behind, and transformation, this ingenious book is both a visual feast to savor in its own right and a guessing game that trains readers to look in a more layered, curious, and questioning way. Close-up spreads offer abstract clues to phenomena revealed at the page turn olor images of similar scientific "moments" broaden context. Sophisticated and inspiring, this invitation to engage with and understand our surroundings--the worlds we can see and the worlds we can't--is a ticket to everyday wonder."--
Review Quotes: An interactive children's debut. . . .The result is a thought-provoking primer on the importance of engaging in careful observation to understand the world.
--Publishers Weekly
--Kirkus Reviews A beautiful book. . . .A great look at science in nature from an artistic perspective.
--Booklist Beyond the science, this is also an engaging look at the artist and her art, as Frankel explains throughout the cameras she used, why she chose them, and how they work. Accessible and breezy, this would make a valuable resource in a cross-curriculum unit on art and science.
--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books A beautiful book of photographs with accompanying explanations to educate and inspire.
--School Library Journal These beautiful, enigmatic images were captured by scientist and photographer Felice Frankel in her everyday life. It's like a guessing game. . . .
--New Scientist