suggests the example of the toddler’s cat hiding in a box and that “until Baby looks in the box, Cat is both asleep and awake” (16). Ferrie’s Newtonian Physics also does this in the use of dark green downward arrows, which represent the downward force of gravity, and the repetition of coloring these arrows and the text “force of gravity” in the dark green throughout the book. Although the target audience Abell’s article focuses on is that of elementary-school-aged children, the same concept can apply to these Science for Babies board books.

Likewise, Quantum Physics follows this method again starting broad with “This is a ball” (1) to orient the audience before leading to “All balls are made of atoms” (5) and describing the parts of an atom, electrons, and what quantization is before finishing on “Now you are a QUANTUM PHYSICIST! This struggle for writing science fiction is reflected in science books generally because authors must balance expressing scientific concepts while working on the premise that children might not have the cognition required to understand and that, as in any conventional Typical Case Prototype children’s literature (as George Lakoff would say), children emotionally need reassurance that the universe is safe and stable. also has a gradual process and is more narrative than Ferrie’s books, starting with introducing that “Baby loves Cat! Lamme, Professors at the University of Florida, developed a set of criteria for judging children’s science books that included accurate science content; realistic illustrations; accurate “relational sizes and proportionality for illustrations” and magnification made obvious; accurate terminology; and entertaining, well-written text (4).In this way, one can analyze the intertextual relationships of literature to other books, movies, paraphernalia, TV, fanfiction, and more. Without these cookies, we won't know if you have any performance-related issues that we may be able to address. In this way, children’s science books can serve a pedagogical purpose, whether they are informational or narrative books, by targeting that innate curiosity and attempting to cultivate it further. They attempt to compile essential similarities of early concept books that explain the visual constraints of board books.

On the box in which the cat hides, one face of the box is colored purple with a pink crescent moon and the other face shown is colored dark orange with a yellow sun. The hardy, non-toxic book is safe in the hands of babies and the illustration of basic ideas is a great learning tool.As the narrative reaches its climax, the same purple is used on the entire background accompanied by the text “Maybe Cat is asleep” and the orange is used as the background for “Maybe Cat is awake” to emphasize the paradoxical idea that the cat “is both asleep and awake” until the box is opened based on physics theory.