Get Into Science: Machines We Use

This first science book exploring the science behind machines provides a great foundation for scientific knowledge.

From topics such as wheels and pulleys to slopes and screws, the book has clear information, fun illustrations and plenty of interactivity from challenges to think about and activities to try.

Get into Science is a series of eight books for children aged 6+ that explore the science that surrounds them in their everyday world. Each page is full of things for the reader to notice, talk about and try for themselves. The simple text is accompanied by fun illustrations.

Why not discover all the titles:

Light and Dark
Machines We Use
Forces Around Us
Full of Energy
Solid, Liquid or Gas?
The Five Senses
Time
You and Your Body

About the Author

Jane Lacey was a primary school teacher for ten years before she became a full-time writer of non-fiction books for children between the ages of three and eleven.

About the Illustrator

Istanbul based illustrator and designer, Senur Isik specialises in children's books and all things lovely. She studied Graphic Design at Ataturk University Faculty of Fine Arts, then worked as an illustrator for a company in Istanbul specialising in content for children's TV. Later, she worked as the Visual Art Director and Character Designer for a Theme Park in Istanbul. In 2014 she was chosen for the Pictoplasma Academy in Berlin, where she studied character design. Since 2002, she has been working with publishers around the world, illustrating children's books.

She also creates little sculptures of her characters using clay and ceramics and is currently exhibiting, mainly in USA. She travels with a passion around the world, creating new characters and stories about places she's been to.