Science Comic Series is Fun Reading via Getting Smart

Science Comic Series is Fun Reading

Getting Smart: 6.26.2019 by Winifred Kehl

It’s no secret that I’m a fan of nonfiction comics and graphic novels, especially ones about science.

In the past few years there’s been a small but steady stream of new titles available, and late last year *First Second press announced a new series for kids called, appropriately, Science Comics.

Each volume covers one topic; the first two titles available are Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers (by MK Reed and Joe Flood) and Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean (by Maris Wicks).

Aimed at kids ages eight and up, both Dinosaurs and Coral Reefs are gorgeously illustrated and maintain a light-hearted and approachable voice of narration.

Content ranges from the basic (such as the basics of the water cycle) to the complex (like taxonomy of species and the chemistry of ocean acidification).  READ MORE >>

Science Comics

*Macmillan

Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic – dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you’re a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty year old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you!

Bats: Learning to Fly - Falynn Koch

Cars: Engines That Move You - Dan Zettwoch

Cats: Nature and Nurture - Andy Hirsch

Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean - Maris Wicks

Crows: Genius Birds - Kyla Vanderklugt

Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers - M.K. Reed

Dogs: From Predator to Protector - Andy Hirsch

Flying Machines: How the Wright Brothers Soared - Molly Brooks, Alison Wilgus

Plagues: The Microscopic Battlefield - Falynn Koch

Polar Bears: Survival on the Ice - Jason Viola

Robots and Drones: Past, Present, and Future - Mairghread Scott

Rockets: Defying Gravity - Anne Drozd, Jerzy Drozd

Sharks: Nature's Perfect Hunter - Joe Flood

Skyscrapers: The Heights of Engineering - John Kerschbaum

Solar System: Our Place in Space - Rosemary Mosco, Jon Chad

The Brain: The Ultimate Thinking Machine - Tory Woollcott

Trees: Kings of the Forest - Andy Hirsch

Volcanoes: Fire and Life - Jon Chad

Wild Weather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate - Jonathan Hill, M.K. Reed