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Wonderful World of the Small: A First Book of Microbiology
Dr Lindsey Millar and Vivien Sárkány

WHOOSH! and you're there ... in a secret place full of incredible tiny creatures living extraordinary lives. Meet champion swimmer, Bertie Bacterium, and his amazing microscopic motor. Discover the marvellous magician, Silvia Slime Mould, and her stupefying, shape-shifting tricks.

This award-winning first book of microbiology takes children on a fun learning journey down the microscope lens, gently presenting some types of microorganism and linked concepts. Ten zany microbial characters and their friends can be found among the colourful swirling slide samples depicted in the vibrant illustrations.  

Wonderful World of the Small is a playful introduction to the fascinating hidden kingdom around us.

A kaleidoscopic learning journey for bright sparks and budding scientists everywhere!

Hardcover picture book with 32 silk finish pages  Dimensions 216 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
Reading age 5–8 years approximately

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"Each double-paged spread is full of play­ful illus­tra­tions, info tid­bits, jokes, and speech bub­bles that offer a light­hearted intro­duc­tion to micro­bial innov­ations, includ­ing the bac­ter­ial flagel­lum, the viral cap­sid,

the hat-thrower fungus' launch­ing of spores, a para­mecium's con­trac­tile vac­uole, and more.

It's a heart­warming and edu­ca­tional pic­ture book to get kids cur­ious about the micro­scopic lives

that inhabit our world."

– Small Things Considered, American Society for Microbiology

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