This book is part of a book series called Usborne Science And Experiments .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 1991 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Peter Geissler, born 1962, studied philosophy in Munich where he lives with his wife and son. He writes poetry for grown-ups and works as a journalist and editor. Meins und Deins was his first book for children. He has since published Ich kenn mich schon gut aus also with Almud Kunert. Almud Kunert was born in Bayreuth in Germany. She studied painting and graphic design in Munich where she now lives, working as a free-lance illustrator. Anthea Bell was born in Suffolk, was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, and has worked as a translator for a number of years, primarily from German and French. Her translations include works of non-fiction, literary and popular fiction, and books for young people. She has been the recipient of a number of translation prizes and awards, among them the 1987 Schlegel-Tieck Award for Hans Berman's The Stone and the Flute (Viking) and the first Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation for Christine Nostlinger's A Dog's Life (Andersen Press). She lives in Cambridge. Jane Bingham is an experienced author and editor of children's books.

This book has the following chapters: About experimenting; balancing and gravity; it's a gas; floating and sinking; sounds interesting; surprising senses; light and sight; bouncing light; bending light; starting and stopping; turn and turn again; follow the food trail; investigating acids; colourful reactions; curious colours; gripping and sliding; making microbes work; how air pushes; moving air; crack the crime with chemistry; how molecules pull; frozen solid; crystal gazing; Earth, Sun and Moon; thirsty plants; warming up; water in the air; weather watching; magnetic attractions; charging up; batteries and buzzers; make a door entry system; science information; science words.