This Book Thinks You’re a Scientist: Experiment, Imagine, Create

Playfully illustrated with sketchlike cartoons and doctored photos, this activity book is inspired by Wonderlab: The Statoil Gallery, an interactive exhibit opening at the Science Museum in London in October 2016. Seven core subjects—forces and motion, mathematics, Earth and space, light, matter, sound, and electricity and magnetism—are addressed through simple activities, which include describing background noise, creating a light obstacle course, and bending a stream of water using static electricity. Readers are invited to add their observations and conclusions into the scrapbook-style pages. With easy setups and few required tools, the activities encourage imagination, curiosity, and careful observation. Ages 7–10. (Sept.)