Description: What if your science experiments were so interesting that even an Emperor wanted to know more. The story of Ernst Chladni (KLOD-nee), the Father of Acoustics, meeting with Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Learn about fascinating sound experiments.
Brief description: Children's book author Darcy Pattison finds inspiration in writing about science and nature; three of her books have been honored as NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books: Nefertiti the Spidernaut: How a Jumping Spider Learned to Hunt in Space, 2017; Abayomi, the Brazilian Puma: The True Story of an Orphaned Cub, 2015; and Desert Baths, 2013. Wisdom, the Midway Albatross: Surviving the Japanese Tsunami and Other Disasters for Over 60 Years (Mims House), a starred review in Publisher's Weekly. Burn: Michael Faraday's Candle is a physical science book about how a candle burns, based on Michael Faraday's famous 1848 juvenile Christmas lecture. Other picture books include The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman (Harcourt), which received an Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature Honor Book award, starred reviews in BCCB and Kirkus, and has been published in a Houghton Mifflin textbook; Searching for Oliver K. Woodman (Harcourt); 19 Girls and Me (Philomel); and 11 Ways to Ruin a Photograph: A Military Family Story (Mims House). Her series, The ALIEN, INC. CHAPTER BOOK SERIES includes Kell, the Alien; Kell and the Horse Apple Parade; Kell and the Giants; and Kell and the Detectives. She is also the author of middle grade novels and teaches nationally a Novel Revision Retreat. For more, see darcypattison.com/about