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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Light is strange, sometimes dazzling, sometimes dim. It can be coloured, white or invisible. Light has incredible energy, and zooms at amazing speeds across the Universe. Most of the light on the young planet Earth came from the Sun, starlight and lightning. Humans have now found many different ways of making light. The most amazing light source ever invented can be billions of times more powerful than a light bulb. It is called a laser.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

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OUR REVIEW

Presenting the fascinating world of science to children can be a difficult task if it is done through general divulgative books. Publishing scientific books exclusively written for children is a magnificient idea.

This book in particular shows, by means of short texts easy to understand and attractive drawings in a children comic book style, the fascinating properties of light.

The approach made by the author is adequate, because he achieves to condense the basic knowledge on light within a brief, agile text.

It must be pointed out that the author's photo on the back cover has a somewhat unusual nature, which turns out to be most suitable given the theme of the book. It is in fact a hologram that, adequately oriented with respect to the reader's eyes and the light source, creates the illusion that the author is moving about in the photo, making us a facial gesture of surprise, while from his finger a ray of light emanates.