Science Around Us - Energy

Author: Sally Hewitt
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2003)

What is energy? How do people and animals get their energy? What kinds of fuel are used for energy? Why do we need to find different ways of making energy?

The answers to these and many other questions are explored in this colourful and informative look at energy, why nothing can happen without it, and how we use the resources in the world around us to make energy.

Topics include:
* What is energy?
* Plants
* Full of energy
* Food
* Animals
* Movement and sound
* Heat and light
* Coal
* Gas and oil
* Electicity
* Batteries
* Sun, water and wind
* Make butterflies flutter
* Words to remember

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)