Guys this book should be in schools and libraries for sure! Kids are going to love this and the fun experiments! Thank you netgalley for the free arc in exchange for an honest review!

This is an informative and entertaining book for kids that will teach them science and give them some fun magic tricks. It even goes into the explanations behind strange and supernatural seeming natural phenomena like the Northern Lights. There are lots of simple science and "magic" tricks and I tried one on my two youngest kids, making their fingers supposedly become magnetic and pull towards each other. Mould also debunks things like crystals and water dowsing, but I'm not sure that I agree with him that anything that we can't explain can't be real. My husband told me about dowsing years ago and I set out to prove him wrong because I was sure it was hogwash. Our little handmade dowsing rod found water below us even though I didn't know in advance where it was. I couldn't explain it (I was the one holding the dowsing rod and I didn't believe in it) but it did seem to work. Mould points out that they used dowsing to find the best place to drill wells and just says that science has never found an explanation for why it would work so he says it can't be true. Science still can't explain why anesthesia works either, but I'll still choose that when I have surgery. :)

In any case, this is a brightly illustrated, fun book for kids of all ages are sure to enjoy.

My rating system:

1 = hated it
2 = it was okay
3 = liked it
4 = really liked it
5 = love it, plan to purchase, and/or would buy it again if it was lost

I read a temporary digital ARC of the book for the purpose of revi

Thank you DK and NetGalley for the review copy of Science is Magic. This collection of "magic tricks" that really examples of scientific concepts is a lot of fun. These are the types of projects we would do at our local makerspace that don't feel like learning. There are a wide variety of concepts covered in this book, and I like that the sidebar explains the science behind each "trick." It reminds me a bit of the TV show "Outrageous Acts of Science." The excellent anecdotal information added in throughout the book is a fun way to increase interest as well.

Hilarious ~ Surprising ~ Clear

tl;dr: As if David Copperfield the magician and Bill Nye wrote a children's how-to book.

We all have those brilliant little kooks in our lives, the ones with big laughs and insatiable curiosity. This book is for them. Each spread shows the hows and whys of sort of funny science experiments like disappearing glass or non-drip punctured bags. I have read many of these science how-to books, and most go over the same old things. This book does have some of those like the red cabbage dye. But, most projects are different and the approach to all is really clear and amusing. I am excited to purchase the book for the big nerds in my family.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange of an honest review.