Robert E. Wells (1)

First off, I will definitely have this book when I become a teacher. The title alone is enough to attract a child. Firstly because it is a question and is likely to get the child thinking, secondly because children love dinosaurs. I could get the attention of a whole class with this book, they would see it as storytime, something fun for most of them. Then before they know it they are learning about the entire water cycle! This book literally teaches the whole water cycle and couples it with show more some lovely and entertaining illustations. There is even a bit at the end that talks about what the children can do to conserve water, to show that they can get involved and that it is relevant to their lives. I would totally use this book to introduce a section on the water cycle. Also, there are pages where you have to turn the book sideways to read it. I thought that was pretty cool and likely to hold a child's interest. show less

I enjoyed the illustration and overall concept of this book, especially idea of humans drinking the same recycled water as dinosaurs. My favorite illustration is on the fourth page and features two children sitting at a table in the corner of the page while they imagine a large dinosaur drinking water in a thought bubble above them.

How Do You Lift a Lion is a book about, well, the ability to lift lions and other heavy animals and objects. Robert E. Wells discusses gravity, and how it could be used against you when you are trying to lift something up, or you can use it in your favor. The illustrations in this book are great and they do a fantastic job detailing what the text is trying to explain. Wells does a great job of showing children that they can in deed lift heavy objects with the help of mechanics; something show more children would love to read about and imagine doing. show less

I absolutely loved this particular science book because it was very funny and light spirited.. However it also depicted many animals that were very small. I felt like this book was the most successful science book I've read because it's style, tone, and content were perfect. The book started off talking about how small a shrew might feel when next to an elephant, the biggest mammal, to talking about atoms, electrons,neutrons. This is the first children's book that I've seen that talked about show more animals and they're sizes to chemistry and made it flow very well. I would definitely read this book to my future science class. show less