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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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BfK No. 149 - November 2004

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

Beverley Birch
Illustrated by Robin Bell Corfield
(Mathew Price Ltd)
48pp, NON FICTION, 978-1842481189, RRP £4.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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Adventures with Electricity: Benjamin Franklin's Story

Beverley Birch
Illustrated by Robin Bell Corfield
(Mathew Price Ltd)
48pp, NON FICTION, 978-1842481240, RRP £4.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
The Science Stories Books
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The Fight against Microbes: Pasteur's Story

Beverley Birch
Illustrated by Christian Birmingham
(Mathew Price Ltd)
48pp, NON FICTION, 978-1842481226, RRP £4.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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The Search for Radium: Marie Curie's Story

Beverley Birch
Illustrated by Christian Birmingham
(Mathew Price Ltd)
48pp, NON FICTION, 978-1842481202, RRP £4.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
The Science Stories Books
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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.

Reviewer: 
Sue Unstead
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