Physics Animated!

by Tyler Jorden, Elsa Martins (Illustrator)

Overview

Engage with Newton on gravity and explore mass, lift, friction, and other amazing laws of physics with the most exciting and interactive physics book available for your little genius! With explanations and real-life examples of Newton's Three Laws, this interactive board book invites children to pull the levers, turn the wheels, and watch as an airplane lifts off, a roller coaster zooms around a loop, and a boat floats. Each concept is animated and interactive to introduce and explore some of most important aspects of our physical world. Kids will delight in seeing centripetal force, inertia, thrust, and more come to life. A perfect tool for instructing and inspiring little physicists of all ages. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641701327
Publisher:	Familius
Publication date:	11/15/2019
Pages:	14
Sales rank:	153,437
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 7.30(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Tyler Jorden earned a BS in chemical engineering from BYU. He has worked for Micron in Singapore, for Intel in China, and now in management for Micron in Utah, where he lives with his wife and three children. 
 

Elsa is an illustrator and designer based in sunny Portugal, where she spends her days drawing for both children and children at heart for her brand, Somebodyelsa.

Editorial Reviews

2020-02-09
Too much, too soon?

In this newest example of a board book aimed at parents intent on turning tots into overachieving science prodigies when they’re barely out of diapers, Isaac Newton discovers that “everything could be explained by three simple laws.” What follows is a mess of true science accompanied by artwork with movable elements that illustrates with varying degrees of clarity the scientific principles in question. Unfortunately, the material is poorly contextualized for toddlers. Even Isaac Newton is confusing. With his round face, long gray hair, and ruffled sleeves, he’s likely to be misidentified as someone’s kindly old grandmother. As children have no knowledge of 17th- and 18th-century fashion, simply calling him “Sir,” the title he eventually earned, might have helped eliminate confusion, but Jorden doesn’t take that route. Then there’s the science. Various laws of physics are stated whole, as they might be introduced in a junior high school or high school science class. The illustrations do illustrate each point, but expecting children to relate these dry statements of scientific fact to what’s going on in the pictures seems an overreach. The book ignores the opportunity to tie Newton’s observations to children’s natural curiosity. Often, the exposition presents concepts in terms that themselves require definition, adding to the confusion.

Information overload for toddlers. (Board book. 2-5)

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