Dr Jess Wade is an award-winning physicist specialising in plastic electronics, and a trailblazing campaigner for inclusion in STEAM fields. She won the Early Career Physics Communicator Award for outreach and the Jocelyn Bell Burnell Award for her outstanding research and widely covered activism. This notably included writing over 1200 Wikipedia pages in a year for women and people of colour working in science, and a campaign to get a copy of Angela Saini's book Inferior into every school in the UK. Follow her on Twitter under the handle @jesswade Melissa Castrillon is an English/Colombian illustrator, currently based in Cambridge, England. She has a First class Honors Degree in Illustration and a Master's Degree in Children's Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art. She is the author-illustrator of Mighty Min and The Balcony, and the illustrator of If I Had a Little Dream and Yellow Kayak; she won the Gold Medal at the Society of Illustrators' annual exhibition. Follow her on Instagram under the handle @melissa.castrillon
We need more beautifully illustrated and involving non-fiction like this. Wade and Castrillon introduce nanoscience with perfect clarity and inviting pictures. -- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times * another beautiful picture book for five-plus, plunging deep into the world of atoms, materials applications of nanoscience, with accessible text and richly shaded pictures * The Guardian * Written by a highly skilled physicist with beautiful art from Castrillon. -- Fiona Noble * The Bookseller * This book is amazing! The pictures were incredible and they helped make the information clearer [...] This book shows that science is useful and fun to learn. * Violet (Age 7), Books Up North * This thoughtfully accessible introduction to nanotechnology will surprise and delight young minds reaching horizons you never thought you might investigate. A brilliant brain-dusting book for budding young scientists. * WRD *