Vicki Cobb's Why Can I Suck Through a Straw?: Smart Answers to STEM Questions

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Vicki Cobb's Why Can I Suck Through a Straw?: Smart Answers to STEM Questions
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Vicki Cobb
SeriesSTEM Play
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:40
Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 203
ISBN/Barcode 9781631583469
ClassificationsDewey:533.6
Audience
Children / Juvenile
Primary
Illustrations color illustrations throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Skyhorse Publishing
Imprint Racehorse for Young Readers
Publication Date 3 October 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

Age range 5 to 12 Just how do straws work? Find out how in this new, colorful, easy-to-read STEM book! In Why Can I Suck Through a Straw?, your child will learn all about physics and the effect of air pressure on liquids. Accomplished author and educator Vicki Cobb teaches your child all about this aspect of STEM, while still making it fun and entertaining through bright illustrations, easy-to-understand language, and experiments broken down step-by-step. Your child will be so enthralled, they won't even realise they're learning!

Author Biography

Vicki Cobb is the well-known author of 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. Currently, she is president and founder of INK Think Tank: Nonfiction Authors in Your Classroom. She has won numerous awards, including a Sibert Honor and a special Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of for the Advancement of Science in 2012. She lives in Greenburgh, New York.