A Brief Kids' History of Time |
| Published: November 8, 2007, 10:36 pm |
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The NBC Today show's Al Roker announced last Friday that Stephen Hawking's new book, George's Secret Key to the Universe, will be the next selection in Al's Book Club for Kids, Roker's Oprah-style discussion group for young readers
George's Secret Key, co-authored by the renowned physicist and his daughter Lucy, is the first in a trilogy that the father-daughter team are writing together to present the cosmology of Hawking's A Brief History of Time for children ages nine to 12. They are calling the books "science fact," interspersing adventure stories with mini science lectures.
If you're thinking this sounds too much like a dry science text thinly disguised as a children's book, you should check out this Los Angeles Times review, which compares the adventure to the Captain Underpants series, calling it a "manifesto to the irrepressibility of the scientific mind."
The Today website has an excerpt from the book, a Q&A with the Hawkings, [ Full article ] |
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