Basher The Periodic Table: Elements with Style!
by Simon Basher, Adrian Dingle
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Author: Adrian Dingle, Simon BasherEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-12
ISBN: 0753460858
Number of pages: 128
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Kingfisher
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- ISBN13: 9780753460856
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Book Review: Short-changed
Summary: 2 Stars
The concept behind this book is quite appealing: present cameo portraits of the elements of the periodic table as if they were personalities (Lead: "Don't let my heavyweight status fool you---at heart I'm a totally malleable softie...") accompanied by fun, manga-style cartoon characters. This kind of approach has the potential to appeal to older children.
Where it falls down is that of the 111 elements shown on the folded 9.5" x 13.5" poster at the back of the book, only 54 (i.e. less than half) are actually written up in the book proper. Thus, for example, Cadmium, shown on the back cover, and Polonium---intriguingly shown on the front cover no less---are conspicuously absent. The Boron elements mysteriously stop after Aluminium; missing are Gallium, Indium and Thallium. The entirety of the Lanthanoids and Transactinides has been given short-shrift.
These are disappointing omissions. The end product is frustratingly superficial, redundant (who cares about Lead---tell me something interesting about an element I may have never heard of e.g. Gallium, Europium, Astatine etc) and incomplete.
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