YOU CAN Discover Extreme Earth

(Board book)

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Unleash the power of our Extreme Earth!

Embark on a thrilling journey of discovery to transform your knowledge and change the way you see our incredible planet.

With mind-blowing facts to discover and scenes that transform with the turn of each die-cut page, there's plenty to explore and learn about the powerful natural events that shape our world. From explosive volcanoes, shaking earthquakes and towering tsunamis to unstoppable avalanches, dangerous landslides and mighty mudflows!

Be Inspired! - You'll meet some of the real-life scientists whose groundbreaking discoveries have helped humankind to learn about and live with these powerful and sometimes destructive natural events. From volcano explorers Katia and Maurice Krafft, earthquake scientist Charles Richter, and avalanche pioneer Ed LaChapelle to tsunami researcher Costas Synolakis and landslide expert Dalia Kirschbaum, will these amazing scientists inspire YOU, too Could YOU predict the next natural event How could YOU transform the world

An exciting and inspirational STEM-supporting book for future scientists, everywhere!

Author Bio

Melanie Hibbert has a passion for creating children's books and loves to discover new things about the world to share with young readers. She grew up in Scotland, has worked in the USA, Japan and London, and now lives in Bath. Subjects Melanie has written about include art, craft, games, natural history, cookery and travel. Her latest challenge is learning to play the saxophone... without upsetting the neighbours! Malgorzata Detner is a Poland-based illustrator, born in 1989. Her love of drawing appeared at a young age, influenced by her mother's paintings but grew seriously when she decided to follow art in middle school. Influenced by old animation, mysterious, fantastic worlds, animals, and creatures in vibrant colours are what she likes drawing the most. She draws digitally but she also likes to incorporate hand-painted textures in her work. Malgorzata loves creating illustrations that remind her of childhood memories.