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How to Save your Granny from a Runaway Train

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Book Synopsis

Bonkers dilemmas that can be solved with science and a bunch of brilliant physics experiments.

**No grannies were harmed in the making of this book!**

Trick a shark! Lift a jumbo jet! Escape a deserted island! Stop a runaway train!

Explore a bunch of ridiculous (and not-so-ridiculous) dilemmas – with solutions from the astonishing world of physics.

Sounds unbelievable? Test the science for yourself, with easy-to-follow experiments throughout!

What are you waiting for? Let’s save Granny!

Written by bestselling and award-winning author Swapna Haddow, with brilliantly funny colour illustrations from award-winning illustrator Jess Bradley.

Our Review Panel says...

This book is a humorous mix between short comic strip stories and instructions for introductory physics experiments which could be completed at home. The innovation of the book is in the framing of the experiments as a way to think about solutions to the sometimes outlandish problem scenarios set out in the comic strip stories.

There are accompanying discussions which enable the book to work both for children new to experimental science and those with a deeper special interest. The book would particularly suit fans who like the balance of humour and information in Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley’s Day in the Life books.