Children's curiosity always seems to have no end, and everything in life will enter their little brains, such as-
What's the use of money? Can it buy everything?
What is AI/AI, and will humans eventually be replaced by AI?
Will the weather continue to be bad, and why are extreme weather extremes increasing?
How do plants communicate with each other? Do they speak?
How does the inside of the human body work?
How does the brain make people think?
……
These questions of children, like small tentacles, quietly explore the world at the beginning.
Answering your child's questions becomes a special parent-child experience. As a parent, you may often stop talking about these naïve and direct issues.
How should parents answer?
What kind of way can the child understand better?
Money, AI, Weather, Human Body...... These questions are closely intertwined with our lives and contained in concepts, so how can we start from these conceptual questions to let children better understand the mysteries of the world?
At this time, there is a special need for a set of high-quality popular science books that can assist parents to answer their children's confusion through parent-child reading, satisfy children's curiosity, and guide children's thinking.
That's right, the "Why Read in One Sitting" series is tailor-made for this!
The book covers 6 popular topics and 90 key questions, focusing on six different areas: economy, human body, climate, plants, artificial intelligence, and brain science, and is divided into "What is the use of money?", "Is the human body a perfect machine?", "Can the climate be worse?", "Can plants really speak?", "Will people be replaced by machines?", "How does the brain work?".
In this set of books, you will find that plants can "talk", children can become "weather magicians", and they can also create their own financial expenditure income statement...... Such a set of books makes people can't help but exclaim: "It's really a happy popular science book that can't stop reading!"
How to make children "read in one sitting"?
A good popular science book should create a relaxed and enjoyable reading atmosphere for children, introduce important and cutting-edge knowledge in a way that children like to see, and help them understand reality and imagine the future.
And in order to let children "read it in one go", this set of books is of course also designed with a lot of small ideas -
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Problem-based guidance + life-oriented examples
Clear the barriers to understanding, and popular science is all around you
Flipping through the table of contents, you will find that the whole set of books is trying to satisfy children's growing curiosity in a new way of popular science, using clear, easy-to-read, humorous language and vivid daily examples to explain the basic concepts of daily life and the field of natural sciences for children and stimulate thinking.
Open this set of books, the details are even more amazing!
For children, asking questions is a game of fun, they love to ask questions, and of course they like to be cross-questioned. In the question, add some guidance to stimulate children's deeper curiosity and deepen their understanding -
Through question-based guidance, children's natural curiosity is ignited.
Small questions that arise from time to time in a conversation can allow children to reap the joy of expanding their thinking while reading:
Q: Is there anything I can do to help the climate?
A: You can turn off the lights in the classroom and set up a class energy master......
Focusing on social hot phenomena can subtly stimulate children's awareness of a "community with a shared future for mankind":
Q: Can technology help the planet?
A: Technology can not only help the planet, but it must help the planet. In the world of the future, we will increasingly talk about the circular economy, an economic model based on a revolutionary idea that "waste" does not exist.
Starting from children's lives, promote children's philosophical thinking about the world and cultivate their humanistic care:
Q: Can we survive without plants?
A: No, we can't. Plants provide us with much more than we think, such as building, heating, making clothes......
After reading it in one go, the child's scientific thinking is also inspired and exercised.
It's just that sometimes those questions about economics, science and life are a bit abstract, and we have to add some small condiments of life -
Use examples of daily life to escort children's understanding.
In a word, borrow a small example from life to tell your child what money is:
A picture, borrowing the real feeling of the imaginary rabbit to the cold, vividly presents what is the "Ice Age":
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Conversational language + comic illustrations
The format is pleasing to hear and see, bringing a smooth reading experience
In the book, there are talking little yellow chickens and cars, there are mischievous Mr. White Rabbit, and funny cacti accompany young readers, they go to the hypermarket to feel the rise and fall of prices, go to the bank to simulate the flow of money, go to the farthest place from the sun to settle down, and take a spaceship to experience the strange space plants......
They set off together to appreciate the miraculous creation of nature, explore the small laws of social life, and touch the small ideas of cutting-edge technology.
Young readers will be fascinated by trendy comics and interesting dialogues, and will fall in love with reading before they know it.
How can you rest assured that your child will "read it all in one sitting"?
There are many interesting and easy-to-read popular science books, but what are the popular science books that can really be read by children? How to let children learn Xi popular science knowledge systematically? What kind of popular science books can help children form an organized thinking framework?
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Professional Author + Authoritative Review
Contextual + easy to understand
As you can see, the original authors of this series of books are teachers, scientific researchers, and researchers in related fields from internationally renowned universities, and well-known Chinese experts and scholars are invited to jointly review and approve the content to ensure that the content is professional and guaranteed.
Is economics the study of how to make money? What is this seemingly advanced economics, but which is closely related to our lives? This book will take you into the world of economics in easy-to-understand language.
——Wang Yunfei (Senior Financial Editor)
This book is a rare children's educational book that uses a series of "whys" combined with smart and appropriate illustrations to stimulate children's curiosity and lead them to explore their own mysteries.
——Fuwen Yuan (MD, Young Researcher, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Graduate Supervisor)
Plants have senses, plants can communicate, and the world of plants is far more lively than we think. "Plants and humans, who shapes whom" is a question worthy of in-depth exploration.
——Shi Jun (famous popular science writer, doctor of botany)
In recent years, extreme weather has occurred frequently, and climate issues have gradually entered the public eye. We always believe that everyone should know something about climate, and this book provides a great perspective for children.
——Zheng Yuan (Editor-in-Chief of the well-known popular science self-media "China Meteorological Enthusiasts")
This book provides an in-depth introduction to the history and current situation of technological development, especially robotics and artificial intelligence. Let children have more curiosity about scientific problems, feel the charm of science and technology from life, and stimulate enthusiasm for future science and technology careers.
——Yan Junchi (Professor, Department of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Artificial Intelligence Expert)
The brain is the most complex organ of the human body, and this book starts with the phenomena around children, and leads them to understand how the brain works, which is both interesting and knowledgeable.
——Fuwen Yuan (MD, Young Researcher, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Graduate Supervisor)
In order to better adapt to the reading situation of Chinese young readers, the book also adds a lot of knowledge and materials that are in line with China's national conditions.
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Scientific questioning + guiding practice
Thinking framework + system construction
Each book focuses on a hot topic and collects questions that children are interested in.
The framework system, each book has four sections, according to the vocabulary to learn, to look at the data, to distinguish the true from the false, to expand the context of research, to encourage children to think while reading.
The method is appropriate, according to the general law of scientific inquiry, from understanding phenomena, collecting data, collating data, dialectical judgment to expanding research.
Guide practice, cite the timeline of scientific exploration, and explain historical scientific discoveries and scientific achievements.
It seems that the big names in the industry are confident that reading the "Why Read in One Breath" series can satisfy children's curiosity, promote children's ability to think while reading, help children develop a systematic scientific thinking framework, and guide children to move from scientific reading to scientific practice.
If you want your children to understand the world, fall in love with science, and let the mysteries of the world unfold in their eyes, this "Why Read in One Sitting" series must not be missed!
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"Why Read It in One Sitting" series (6 volumes)
Written by Federico Tadia
Translated by Zhou Zhuojing and Zhang Yuyang
Shanghai Translation Publishing House
The "Why Read in One Sitting" series is a set of joyful popular science books that help children understand reality and imagine the future.
This series contains a total of six books What is Money Really For? Is the Human Body a Perfect Machine? Can the climate be worse? Can Plants Really Talk? "Will Humans Be Replaced by Machines?", "How Does the Brain Work?" in six different areas: climate, economy, plants, brain science, artificial intelligence, and the human body. Each volume contains 15 questions that explain the basic concepts of the field to children in clear, easy-to-read, humorous language and vivid daily examples, so that children can understand the most important and cutting-edge knowledge in the field in a relaxed and enjoyable reading.
丨About the Author丨
Pierdomenico Bacalario is a famous Italian children's writer and founder of the creative agency Book on a Tree. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages, sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, and his masterpiece "Fifty Questions" series has taken the world by storm.
Federico Taddia is an Italian journalist, screenwriter and popular science writer for children.
丨Catalog丨
Swipe left and right to see the list of 6 books
Translated from Shanghai Translation