"The Book Of Big Science Ideas" by Freya Hardy and Sara Mulvanny (Ivy Kids)

From the creative team behind one of our favourite kid mags, the mighty "Aquila" magazine, comes a brilliant and thoroughly packed tome to appeal to young scientists everywhere.

"The Book of Big Science Ideas" celebrates all different disciplines of the sciences in a gorgeously illustrated and thoroughly engaging book that will keep your curious little mini-scientists occupied for hour after hour.

Some of the most amazing people in science both past and present are celebrated here in a book that will inspire and stimulate kids to try out experiments themselves, or perhaps come up with an amazing idea or invention that could really change the world.

Packed with scientists such as Wang Zhenyi, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, James Joule, Rosalind Franklin, Charles Darwin, Aristotle, Edith Clarke, Isaac Newton, Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace and many, many more, no stone is left unturned in a book that looks at the very fabric of our universe, touches on the smallest components that make up everything around us, and looks into the future and what science may hold as new technology and amazing theories are developed by today's hard-working science communities across the world.

Sum this book up in a sentence: A truly fascinating slice of science in book form, covering some of the most amazing scientists, their ideas and inventions, and a glimpse of our near future, from a highly talented duo.

"The Book of Big Science Ideas" by Freya Hardy and Sara Mulvanny is out now, published by Ivy Kids (kindly supplied for review).