Rubber: 7 (Material World) - Hardcover

Llewellyn, Claire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074963989X ISBN 13: 9780749639891

Publisher: Franklin Watts, 2001

Synopsis

These photographic books provide an excellent introduction to different materials and their properties. Each book concentrates on a particular material, and uses imaginative language and child-friendly pictures to describes its characteristics. It then goes on to highlight the connection between the material's properties and how that material is used in the world around us. As well as describing a material and explaining how it is produced and used, the text also includes questions and activities to encourage children to think about and handle materials.

About this title

Book Description:

This introduction to different materials, their properties and uses develops scientific vocabulary and supports the 'Materials and their Properties' strand of the Science curriculum. Interactive text encourages children to think for themselves; includes practical activities.

About the Author:

Claire Llewellyn was an editor of children's fiction and non-fiction for over ten years before becoming a writer, specializing in books for younger readers. Her 'My First Book of Time' won TES Junior Information Book Award in 1992. Since then, she has written over 50 children's books on a wide range of subjects.

About this edition

• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 074963989X
• ISBN 13: 9780749639891
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32