Curious McCarthy's Family Chemistry

by Tory Christie, Mina Price (Illustrator)

Overview

Now that budding scientist Curious McCarthy's dad is going back to work, the five oldest McCarthy kids will be helping more with chores and taking turns cooking dinner. When her parents present the daily chore chart, Curious is delighted that they forgot to assign her a task. She spends the next week trying to go unnoticed and chore-less as she learns about chemistry and observes it at work right in her own chaotic home. Her funny footnotes capture all the details of her observations for readers, who can then try their hand at science with an included experiment. The addition of a glossary and questions for the reader make this a great choice for libraries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515816454
Publisher:	Capstone Press
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Series:	Curious McCarthy
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Tory Christie is a real scientist by day and secretly writes children’s books at night.  When it is light outside, she studies rocks and water. After dark, she writes silly science stories that kids and grownups can laugh about. Check out her latest series, Curious McCarthy, and explore science with Curious and her zany family. Tory Christie grew up in a large family, but her family was nothing like the McCarthys — honestly. The McCarthys are completely fiction — really. Tory Christie lives in Fargo, North Dakota with her medium-sized family.  Find out more at: www.torychristie.com.

Mina Price is an American illustrator and designer. She has a particular affinity for book illustration and character design, or basically any project that allows her to draw interesting people in cool outfits. Mina graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Illustration. She enjoys finding ways to seamlessly marry traditional and digital art, going from scanner to Photoshop to printer to paint and back again.  When she is not drawing, Mina can frequently be found baking things with lots of sugar or getting way too emotional over a good book.

Interviews

Curious McCarthy features a large family, which is rare in contemporary children’s literature and provides ample opportunity for fun and humorous situations; Author Tory Christie is a scientist and engineer. Like Curious, she grew up in a large family; Footnotes are used for a fun and unique storytelling device, providing context as well as humor