Dads Read Too

JER: “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2” by authors Francesca Cavallo & Elena Favilli - when I saw this second volume, I was worried it would pale in comparison to the first volume, but it ended up being just as good with famous people I was surprised missed out on the first volume, like Billie Jean King, J.K. Rowling, and Georgia O’Keefe and others I am just learning about, like Virginia Hall - America’s greatest female spy, who had a wooden leg she called “Cuthbert”, and was “responsible for destroying four bridges, derailed several freight trains, blown up a railway line, cut down telephone wires, and captured hundreds of enemy soldiers” during World War II.  I love how each entry is full of loads of detail in only a single page of text and a single page of illustration.  But it makes me even happier to be able to give my two daughters a wide array of heroes to emulate

JER: “ Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space ” by author Dr. Dominic Walliman and artist Ben Newman is a perfect children’s instruction book on SPACE.  It is written by a Quantum Device Physicist who used to work with my friend @jed.whittaker, and it does an amazing job explaining the fundamentals of space in a way that is relatable and easy to understand.  It goes into the evidence for the Big Bang, the fusions process on the Sun, and how black holes form - perfectly timed to talk about the first ever picture taken of a black hole by the team including Dr. Katie Bouman.

JER: “ Star Stories ” by Illustrator Andy Wilx and Author Anita Ganeri explores the stories that were inspired by the stars.  The last several years, I have become more and more fascinated with stars and the our inter-connectivity with the stars. “We are all made of stardust. It sounds like a line from a poem, but there is some solid science behind this statement too: almost every element on Earth was formed at the heart of a star. . . . During a supernova, when a massive star explodes at the end of its life, the resulting high energy environment enables the creation of some of the heaviest elements including iron and nickel. The explosion also disperses the different elements across the universe, scattering the stardust which now makes up planets including Earth.” - Physics.org