We Dare You!: Hundreds of Science Bets, Challenges, and Experiments You Can Do at Home

For adventurous boys and girls, these experiments will thrill and educate.

Would you believe that you could throw an egg across the room without breaking it? Burn a candle underwater? Blow frozen soap bubbles? Make fireworks with a lemon? We Dare You! is a gigantic collection of irrestistible, easy-to-perform science experiments, tricks, bets, and games kids can do at home with ordinary household objects. Thanks to the principles of gravity, mechanics, fluids, logic, geometry, energy, and perception, kids will find countless hours of fun with the selections included in this book. Write with a potato! Boil water in a paper cup! Calculate air temperature by listening to crickets! Use Windex to reveal secret messages! Slice a banana without peeling it or using a knife! With over 200 charming, practical illustrations and even more experiments, this is a book no young scientist should be without. 200 b/w illustrations.

Vicki Cobb has written more than eighty-five highly entertaining nonfiction books for children, including Bet You Can't, which won the New York Academy of Sciences Children's Science Book Award. She lives in White Plains, New York. Kathy Darling is the author of thirty-six books for children on science, nature, and animals. She has also been a children's book editor, a publicist, and a syndicated newspaper columnist. She lives in Larchmont, New York.