Keeping Us Safe (STEM Heroes) - Hardcover

Jackson, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526324768 ISBN 13: 9781526324764

Publisher: Wayland, 2024

Synopsis

Meet and be inspired by the huge variety of STEM heroes keeping us safe every day. From car designers to city planners, meteorologists to naval architects - their STEM skills make a real difference!

STEM Heroes introduces you to essential jobs and diverse STEM skills, highlighting the key details of each role. The series also includes information on what subjects to study if you want to be a STEM hero, too! Perfect for inspiring readers aged 7 and up, and book banded to reading level Book Band 13 Grey.

STEM Heroes: Keeping Us Safe contents include:
Health and safety, safe food, road safety, alarm systems, pollution, weather, volcano alert!, rescue squad, safety at sea, tsunami warning, asteroid watchers, become a STEM safety hero, extra safety fun (quiz and fun facts).

Books in the series:
Keeping Us Connected
Keeping Us Moving
Keeping Us Healthy
Keeping Us Safe

About this title

About the Authors

Tom Jackson has written more than 80 books and contributed to hundreds more. His specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Tom spends his days finding fun ways of communicating facts, new and old, to all age groups and reading abilities. Tom lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and three children. He studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working at zoos. Tom has also worked as a conservationist, which saw him planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing wildlife from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing has also taken him to the Galápagos Islands, Amazon rainforest, coral reefs of Indonesia and Sahara Desert. Nowadays, he can be found mainly in the attic.

After earning her master's degree in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Rea is now working as a freelance Illustrator of children-related illustrations. She loves drawing these, as she can observe the world in a kid's way purely, which can always bring her fun, peace, and joy. She lives with her husband, baby girl, two cats, and dogs in Beijing, China.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wayland
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526324768
• ISBN 13: 9781526324764
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Zhai Rea
• Number of pages: 32