Compared to you
How big, how fast, how heavy or how old, measured against things you already know: your height, your stride, the bag on your back.
Science books for ages 7 to 12
Science with you in it.
First Person Science books explain the world by starting with the reader: your hands, your heartbeat, your kitchen, your back yard. Every fact comes with a way to picture it, notice it, or imagine you are right there.
The first books are being written now.
The first-person idea
Three ways to put you in the picture.
A fact sticks when you can feel how it relates to you. Every day or chapter in a First Person Science book includes at least one of these.
Notice it
Clues you can find on your own body or around your home. Put a hand on your chest. What can you feel, and what is causing it?
Imagine you are there
Step inside the scene, from the rim of a volcano to the bottom of the sea, and look around with your own eyes.
Inside the books
A question, a guess, then the good part.
Pages are built for reading together. A grown-up can read the question aloud, everyone guesses, and the answer is waiting on the next page.
- Guess first. A big question and a prompt to predict. The answer is never on the same page.
- Find out. A clear answer, a few short facts, and a comparison a child can picture.
- Your moment. The line that puts the reader inside the fact.
- Try it. Some books add a simple experiment. Many do not need one.
For parents and grandparents
What we promise families.
- Facts are checked against two sources. If scientists still disagree, the book says so.
- Myths are labeled as myths. A popular story never slips in as a fact.
- Experiments are kitchen-table safe. Household materials only, no heat, nothing sharper than child-safe scissors, and an adult-supervision note on every one.
- No screens required. No QR codes or links that send children online.
- Written to be enjoyed. Warm, short and exact, with a reason to turn the page.