Germ Zappers (Enjoy Your Cells Series Book 2) - Softcover

Balkwill, Fran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879695986 ISBN 13: 9780879695989

Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001

Synopsis

Planet Earth can be a dangerous place for all living creatures, including you. You can usually escape from erupting volcanoes and floods. You can protect your body from the blazing Sun and freezing snow. But wherever you live and whatever the weather, you cannot escape GERMS!

Enjoy Your Cells is a series of children's books from the acclaimed creative partnership of scientist/author Fran Balkwill and illustrator Mic Rolph. Once again, they use their unique brand of simple but scientifically accurate commentary and exuberantly colorful graphics to take young readers on an entertaining exploration of the amazing, hidden world of cells, proteins, and DNA.

It's over ten years since Fran and Mic invented a new way of getting science across to children. Think what extraordinary advances have been made in biology in that timeand how often those discoveries made headlines. Stem cells, cloning, embryo transfer, emerging infections, vaccine developmentELhere in these books are the basic facts behind the public debates. With these books, children will learn to enjoy their cells and current affairs at the same time. And they're getting information that has been written and reviewed by working scientists, so it's completely correct and up-to-date. Readers aged 7 and up will appreciate the stories' lively language and with help, even younger children will enjoy and learn from the jokes and illustrationsno expert required!

Discover all the books in the ENJOY YOUR CELLS series, each available in coloring book and full-color formats!

About this title

About the Author:

Fran Balkwill is Professor of Cancer Biology at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and the London Queen Mary School of Medicine. Mic Rolph is a graphic designer with much television and publishing experience. Together, they have created many books for children, and have won several awards, including
the prestigious COPUS Junior Science Book Prize.

Review:

"Parents wearied by the bizarre exploits of Metal Greymon, Goku or Bubbles (don't ask) might try presenting their embattled child with Germ Zappers. It showcases home-grown heroes - the cells of the immune system. It's presented with brilliant simplicity: the drawings are accurate, the text is
a doddle to understand. Joshua, six-and-a-half, read it with relish. 'A germ,' he told me afterwards, 'is a small thing that has quite a lot of power, really, and could make you very, very sick. Germs are bacteria or viruses. Cells in our body can kill them. There's a special sort of cell in your
belly that makes acid and destroys anything suspicious like a germ. I also thought the natural killer cell was powerful and cool. It's funny-looking-ball-shaped with bumps-and it sneaks up and sticks holes in the membrane of an infected cell.' See? Germ Zappers is every bit as weird as Dragon Ball Z
- and there's no merchandise attached to it. Go for it."

--New Scientist

About this edition

• Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0879695986
• ISBN 13: 9780879695989
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Rolph Mic