What Do Scientists Do All Day?

by Jane Wilsher, Maggie Li (Illustrator)

Overview

What do scientists do all day? Find out in this fully illustrated book that features more than
100 scientists at work. Little ones can explore fourteen scenes of scientists at work in different
environments – discover dinosaur bones with the paleontologist on a dig, meet zoologists at
the nature reserve, see a doctor doing experiments on the International Space Station, collect
seeds with a plant biologist at the botanical gardens, build a robot with a robotics scientist in
the testing centre – turn the page to find out what each scientist is doing and how

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711249806
Publisher:	Wide Eyed Editions
Publication date:	03/03/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	8 MB
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

MAGGIE LI is a children's book illustrator and author based in London, UK. She is also art director at popular children's publication Okido magazine. A bit of a fact geek, Maggie loves to discover weird and wonderful things about the world around her. She is currently working on her third book.

JANE WILSHER is an author and editor based in London. She has over 20 years’ experience publishing and making award-winning best-selling children’s books for all ages.

Table of Contents

Are you ready for an adventure? 
Come with us and find out what scientists do...

at the nature reserve
at the health center
at the Arctic research station
at the hospital
at the museum
at our new city
at mission control and on the space station
at the observatory
at the aerospace center
at the botanical gardens
at the earth Science center
at the energy plant
at the university
at the technology and computer lab
 

Editorial Reviews

“Give[s] the abilities of budding sleuths a workout in addition to the notion that science encompasses a broad range of occupations”—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2019-12-18
In the spirit of Richard Scarry, Wilsher and Li offer glimpses of people engaged in 102 science or science-related activities.

Take the "all day" bit as poetic license. Along the same lines as Wendy Hunt's What Do Animals Do All Day? (illustrated by Studio Muti, 2018) but closer to reality, eight tiny figures—rendered in Li's neatly drawn illustrations with skin of diverse hues but Eurocentric work dress—in each of 14 generic locales describe their interests or occupations in a sentence or two. Viewers are challenged to identify them from these descriptions using visual clues in a populous unlabeled scene such as a hospital, an aerospace center, or a nature preserve. The author loosens the definition of "scientist" enough to include two schoolchildren taking scientific notes, a tree surgeon, a co-pilot, and a jackhammer operator ("Expert on Drilling"). The author also occasionally fudges (a marine biologist at an Arctic research station poses next to a "Research Scientist" who "is studying to become a marine biologist") or creates artificial distinctions, such as "Mechanical Engineer" and "Maintenance Engineer." Nevertheless, the identification game may give the abilities of budding sleuths a workout in addition to the notion that science encompasses a broad range of occupations.

The premise is mostly a pretext, but it should appeal to younger STEM-winders. (Informational picture book. 7-9)

Kirkus Reviews