The Battle for Radio: Marconi's Story; Adventures with Electricity: Benjamin Franklin's Story; The Fight against Microbes: Pasteur's Story; The Search for Radium: Marie Curie's Story
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Cover Story
This issue's cover illustration is from Julia Donaldson's The Gruffalo's Child, illustrated by Axel Sheffler. Axel Scheffler is interviewed by Martin Salisbury. Thanks to Macmillan Children's Books for their help with this November cover.
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The Battle for Radio: Marconi's Story
Illustrated by Robin Bell Corfield
Adventures with Electricity: Benjamin Franklin's Story
Illustrated by Robin Bell Corfield
The Fight against Microbes: Pasteur's Story
Illustrated by Christian Birmingham
The Search for Radium: Marie Curie's Story
Illustrated by Christian Birmingham
Reissued after nine years, this paperback series focuses on major breakthroughs in science by key players - Marconi, Pasteur, Curie and Benjamin Franklin. Lovely atmospheric illustrations by Robin Bell Corfield (shame on you publisher for misspelling his name on two spines) and Christian Birmingham make the books look attractive. However it will be a dedicated reader who keeps up the momentum to read through these books that have no chapter heads, no captions, no page numbers and no index. You would have to be motivated too to want choose a dramatised version of the story without any hard facts, dates, or references apart from a single page of historical notes. Too soft focus for my liking.
