Jacqueline Fortey

A great book for Middle School students and the reluctant reader. The selections are easily read and comprehended. It can be helpful for students that need quick concise information for a project. The illustrations and pictures are engaging and entice students to read.

Another one for the science section. I am a sucker for Eyewitness books and this one is no exception. Although there are only two female scientists with their own entries, there are mention of other female scientists throughout the other entries, but I look forward to more inclusion in future editions. A great way to provide more information on historical that aren't necessarily sports heroes or film stars.

Great Scientists is a great book from cover to colorful cover. From Aristotle (who I did not know was a scientist), to Dorothy Hogdkin who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for finding the B12 structure, this book provides small excerpts of information on several of the world’s leading scientists, but not all of them and not at an in depth level. The strengths of the book would be the use of color pictures and images to draw the reader into each scientist and discovery. For young children show more this book may be the catalyst that causes them to search for more answers on a specific scientist or discovery. However, if a child wanted to use this book as a reference source, they would be hard-pressed to find answers to all of their research questions. This book would be great to have in a middle to high school classroom library and in the school library as a high interest book for students interested in science. It comes with a CD Rom of science-related clip art. show less

This book was created to explore many different scientists who have helped contribute to science today. I think this book would be great to use in an elementary classroom setting because it uses so many scientists and what they did to become a scientist. A couple scientists that are talked about are Benjamin Franklin, who invented the lightening rod, and also Alfred Wegener who used a device called the weather balloon to track the circulation of air. It also gives a timeline and multiple show more pictures with each scientist. I rated this book 4 out of 5 because it may be easy for the upper levels of elementary students to comprehend, but not as easy for the younger grades. It uses some science concepts that younger children may not be ready to learn. However, it does give great explanations of the concepts. show less