Smart Kids WHYScience Questionsand Answers

Children ask why constantly, and the honest answer is often that the adult in the room does not know either. This book answers the science ones. Why objects fall to the ground and why some things float on water. Why plants need sunlight and how they turn it into food. Why stars shine and what makes the moon look different each night. Why certain materials rust and others do not.

The answers are short and written in plain words, so a child can find a question, read it once, and go and repeat it to somebody. There is no order to keep and nothing to finish. It works for a few minutes before school or for a long stretch on a journey.

It suits a reader who will stay with a book for the content rather than the illustrations, and it covers ground from chemistry to astronomy, taking in physics, space and the natural world along the way.