Author: Richard Hammond

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley

Product: Book (96 pages)

Cost: $17.99

Ages: 8 and up

The subtitle of this book wraps up its theme: Putting the Fizz Back into Physics. Physics isn’t just in the science lab — it’s all around us. Riding your bike, catching a ball, cutting paper, and making a LEGO tower are all physics. This book looks at the physics in the everyday, including why it seems as if your stomach goes up when a roller coaster plunges down and why a cold ball bounces higher than a warm one.

Reviewer:
Laura Whelan,
age 11

The book was very interesting because almost everything in the book was new to me. I really liked the part about the speed of light because I think it would be fun to discover a way to travel at the speed of light! The only thing I would change was the part about the bed of nails. It was gross. The book was a lot of fun to read because there were colourful pictures and not just writing. The experiments were very cool, too. This book was awesome.