Scientists Get Dressed - Hardcover

Rose, Deborah Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1943978484 ISBN 13: 9781943978489

Publisher: Persnickety Press, 2019

Synopsis

"From head to toe, and in between, scientists get dressed for the work they do and the places they do it!"

In Scientists Get Dressed by award-winning author Deborah Lee Rose, stunning and engaging ""you are there"" photos and fun-fact filled text let readers discover how scientists suit up, gown up, gear up, even dress up in costume to do their jobs. Young readers (and listeners) meet real scientists facing the challenges of making new discoveries, saving lives and saving our planet--whether they're floating weightless in space or swimming with endangered whale sharks, digging out snow samples from a frozen glacier or gathering hot lava from a burning volcano, rescuing a wild bald eagle or operating on a human brain.

Kids of all ages love to role play through dress up. Through the unique lens of what scientists wear--including many photos never before published--Scientists Get Dressed inspires kids to explore STEM in new ways, and to imagine themselves getting dressed for exciting and important work.

What do scientists wear? Kids will be fascinated and surprised to learn that scientists wear not only white lab coats but helmets, jackets, boots, goggles, fins, spacesuits, waders, harnesses and gloves of all kinds. Even young children know gloves keep their hands warm--but for scientists, gloves make their work possible and safe. Volcano scientists wear cotton gloves that won't melt near burning lava. Water scientists wear insulating gloves to stay warm and dry in frozen streams. Brain surgeons wear tight, thin gloves that flex with every movement. Raptor scientists wear gloves of stuff stronger than steel, to guard themselves from an eagle's ripping talons and beak.

Scientists Get Dressedteaches young readers how the right clothing and gear help scientists do their extraordinary work in hard to reach places like the high forest canopy and dark bat caves, and protect them from hazards like germs, chemicals and the Sun's dangerous radiation. From labs to volcanic lava fields, from warm ocean waves to frigid polar ice caps, from beehives to beyond Earth's atmosphere, Scientists Get Dressed zooms in on what scientists do, how they do it and why it matters.

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Review:

From muddy waders and ragged work gloves to space suits and full-body panda suits, scientists in the field show off their wardrobes.Starting with Mae Jemison on the cover, Rose puts an unusually diverse gallery of researchers on the figurative runway, color photos actually showing them at work studying sea turtles and volcanoes, an eclipse, whale sharks, glaciers, and honeybees...not to mention donning a spacesuit, maneuvering out of a wheelchair to gather tardigrades from a forest canopy, carrying a rescued bald eagle (previously met in the author's Beauty and the Beak, 2017), and doing brain surgery. So where are the white lab coats, you ask? Meet neuroanatomist Marian Diamond, posing in one with a preserved human brain and the elegant hatbox in which she carries it when visiting classes. The narrative, printed in two fonts, with the smaller offering further detail for older readers, is paired to several color photos, often on gatefolds, that mix full-body views with inset close-ups of specimens or gear. Aside from a few group shots the men and women here are introduced by name, and though everyone is generically dubbed a "scientist" in the primary narrative, each specialty is identified at the end. There the author also places review questions and examples of citizen-scientist projects open to young volunteers.An eye-opening catalog of STEM wear.-- Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

Deborah Lee Rose is the award-winning, internationally published author of Scientists Get Dressed and Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle, both published by Persnickety Press. Beauty and the Beak won the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, the Bank Street College Cook Prize for Best STEM Picture Book, and the California Reading Association Eureka! Gold Award for Nonfiction. Her beloved classics include The Twelve Days of Winter, The Twelve Days of Kindergarten and Into the A, B, Sea, a NY Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing book (a quarter million copies sold). Her environmental folktale The People Who Hugged the Trees is read and performed around the world, and included in language arts/reading collections and programs in the US, Canada, UK and South Africa. Deborah was Director of Communications for the ALA/AASL honored, NSF/Oracle-funded STEM education website Howtosmile.org, senior science writer for UC Berkeley's renowned Lawrence Hall of Science, and a National Science Writing Fellow of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. She graduated from Cornell University and lives in the Washington, DC area. Visit her at www.deborahleerose.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Persnickety Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1943978484
• ISBN 13: 9781943978489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48
• Editor: Watkins Caroline