Anna Raff

This book is so awesome. It explains basically everything about light, from how it travels, to how mirrors and images work, how we get colors, and waves that we can't see. The first time I looked through this, I thought it might be a little long for kids to stay engaged with, but I read it at the request of some of my preschoolers (5 year olds) and I read the entire thing, while others joined in, and read it all the way through again for those who missed some of the beginning. They LOVED it! In my opinion, light is one of the coolest and easiest things that we can experiment with children and there are plenty of small activities in this book that would be so quick to demonstrate. I might use some of those examples, like how you look on each side of a spoon, or why straws look bent in water, and ask students to come up with possible explanations and then read this book for further exploration/explanation.… (més)