Hot on the heels of declaring his enjoyment of historical fiction books my son challenged me to provide him with narrative science books. I turned around in my chair and plucked two books from the shelf that I'd had ready for him to read this year. They are two books written by Lucy Hawking and Stephen Hawking: George's Secret Key to the Universe and George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt.
His eyes nearly popped out of his head as he admitted the challenge was meant to stump me. He did not know that anything like that existed. He dove into Universe first and proclaimed he loved it. As I write this he is nearly finished with Treasure Hunt. Black Holes was set to be published in August 2011 but it is not available on Amazon right now, so we don't own it yet.
It seems in this case the subject matter expert Stephen Hawking combined with the storytelling talents of his daughter Lucy has made a winning combination.
Here is a video of Stephen Hawking talking about the book trilogy.
Here are two videos of Lucy Hawking describing one of the books and about the collaboration with her father.
George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt:
George's Secret Key to the Universe
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