Both books contain quizzes, lists of world records, suggestions for further reading, glossaries, indices and hundreds of color photographs and illustrations. They are gold mines of science fact and fun, and the best buys of all the volumes reviewed here.
In May 1987, Scholastic, the world’s largest purveyor of Englishlanguage publications for children, launched the four-book Explorer series, which invites readers to become stars of the stories as they complete fictitious missions based on scientifically factual clues. According to creator Byron Preiss, “the Explorer series is designed to communicate basic scientific con-cepts while making the subject matter exciting and fun.”
Each book begins, “You are an explorer. You journey to places no one has ever been and face dangers no one has ever known.” Told in the second-person singular, the interactive stories contain project summaries, personal dossiers on fictional scientists and reports on equipment available for research. All the books ...
