My son's birthday is coming up and he's asked for more science books.
He's read the DK The Science Book and the Natural History Museum Why is Snot Green type books. He won't want anymore kiddish books. I got him the Absurd Scientific Advice book which he likes but he was put off at first by it's cartoons style.
He spends a lot of time on science podcasts and at the moment his dream job is terrafoming Mars and he's really into physics and space at the moment. He also used to be really into ecosystems but found it very upsetting thinking about climate change ( hence the interest in leaving this planet stuff I suppose) .
I'm wondering about John Gribbin's book on the development of quantum physics, or The Science of Everyday life but I'm not sure. He's bright and keen but not very bookish and I don't want to put him off.