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How To Explain Aerospace Engineering to a Grown-Up
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The best-selling author of the Baby Loves Science series levels up with this playful STEM picture book introducing kids (and grown-ups) to aerospace engineering. Do you want to know a secret? Sometimes grown-ups need YOU to explain things to THEM. Like aerospace engineering! In this tongue-in-cheek...
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Description
The best-selling author of the Baby Loves Science series levels up with this playful STEM picture book introducing kids (and grown-ups) to aerospace engineering.
Do you want to know a secret? Sometimes grown-ups need YOU to explain things to THEM. Like aerospace engineering!
In this tongue-in-cheek guide, an in-the-know narrator instructs kid readers in the fine art of explaining aerospace engineering to a grown-up. Both children and their adults learn how birds, aeroplanes, and spacecraft fly. Along the way, they explore air pressure, lift, thrust, and drag.
Fun and fact-filled, the How To Explain Aerospace Engineering to a Grown-Up series empowers kid experts to explore complex scientific concepts with any grown-up who will listen.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781623546212
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 17 March 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 203.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 32
About the Author
Ruth Spiro is the author of the How to Explain Science to a Grown-Up series, the Made by Maxine series, and the best-selling Baby Loves Science series, which has been praised by NPR, Today, Popular Science, the Los Angeles Times, and more. Ruth speaks regularly at STEM and early-childhood conferences across the country. When Teresa Martinez was a child, her family moved from a small town to the city. Drawing helped shy Teresa connect with the other kids at school. Now she connects with children across Mexico and around the world through the books she illustrates, including the How to Explain Science to a Grown-Up series, Mario and the Hole in the Sky, and Again, Essie? www.teresa-mtz.com
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