About this item
Introduce Baby to the wonderful, colorful elements that make up his or her world!This board book for babies, ages 6 months to 3 years, features big, bold, and bright photography from Theodore Gray's bestselling adult book The Elements, paired with delightful, baby-friendly text. My First Elements includes 10 elements, one per spread. Each spread features a big photograph of the element on one page, such as an iron horseshoe or nugget of gold. The opposite page shows photographs of the places in baby's world where the element is found from balloons for helium to a swimming pool for chlorine to seaweed for iodine.
About the Author
Theodore Gray is the author of The Elements, Molecules, Mad Science, Mad Science 2, and Reactions, among various related books, plus the off-topic (but BAFTA award winning) iPad app Disney Animated. He's the co-founder of Wolfram Research (makers of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha) , founder of Touchpress (publisher of many award-winning iPad and iPhone apps) , and an avid robotic quilter. He wrote the Gray Matter column for Popular Science magazine from 1992-2002, and this bio.
