All Aboard The Discovery Express: Open the Flaps and Solve the Mysteries

by Emily Hawkins, Tom Adams, Tom Clohosy Cole

Overview

Welcome on board the Discovery Express! The year is 1937 and a conundrum is afoot: a professor on the verge of a brilliant discovery has disappeared. Can you help to solve the clues on this time-travelling adventure and track down the missing scientist? On your voyage, you'll travel the world, see some of the most important moments in the history of transport, meet the most brilliant engineers of all time, and ultimately unveil the design of the world’s first jet engine! With clues to solve on every page, this interactive lift-flap adventure is sure to spark the imaginations of aspiring scientists and engineers everywhere, as you travel back in time to discover the history of transport.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847809902
Publisher:	Wide Eyed Editions
Publication date:	09/07/2017
Series:	All Aboard Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 12.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Emily Hawkins is a writer and editor of children's books for all ages. She wrote the New York Times bestseller Oceanology, as well as several other titles in the Ology series, which has sold over 16 million copies worldwide. She holds a first-class English degree from Nottingham University, and now lives in Winchester with her young family.

Tom Adams is an award-winning television producer and author. He was born in Yorkshire but now lives in Kent, UK. With a science background, he was inspired to turn his hand to writing children’s books once his eldest son, then 5, started asking questions about how the world worked. He won the Society of Authors/ ALCS Award for Educational Writing for his book Molecule Mayhem.

Tom Clohosy Cole is a London-based freelance illustrator, designer & animator. He is the illustrator of All Aboard the Discovery Express, Destination: Planet Earth and Destination: Space, which was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2017. 

Editorial Reviews

08/28/2017
Conductor Pierre Henri and explorer Nancy Delany serves as readers’ guides aboard the Discovery Express, a time-traveling train that the authors use to dive into the history of transportation. Multiple flaps are incorporated into the pages, lifting to reveal details about transportation milestones and technologies (such as how steam engines and electric motors work), as well as clues designed to help readers solve the mystery of a missing professor. Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop, the Panama Canal, and the North Carolina site of the Wright brothers’ flight are among the locations visited, and Clohoshy-Cole captures these and other settings in cinematic digital illustrations that highlight the excitement and potential surrounding these advancements. It’s an engaging overview of humankind’s attempts to travel faster and farther—and of the pilots, inventors, and dreamers who made those developments possible. Ages 7–10. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

2017-09-18
A train takes young travelers through time and space to witness highlights in the history of transportation.Welcomed aboard by Pierre the conductor and Nancy the tour guide (both, like all but a few figures in background crowds, white), readers set out on a journey that zigzags through various eras, from ancient times to the 1930s, and geographically from San Francisco to St. Petersburg. On the trip they will see the first appearances of wheels and automobiles, hot air balloons, submarines, and other vehicles, plus significant inventions from good roads to steam, electric, and jet engines. Lifting flaps cut into the painted illustrations of each scene reveals diagrams and descriptions of the technology and physical principles that made each conveyance work—with, as an extra, clues in diverse types of codes and ciphers to each subsequent destination. Though the tour ends before it gets to spacecraft or maglev trains and mostly stays in Europe and North America, it does stop for appreciative looks at several vehicles imagined by Leonardo da Vinci and also pauses for nods to the inventors of the rickshaw, roller skates, and other lesser-studied ways of getting from here to there.A smooth ride, with a few stops that are off the well-beaten path. (Informational novelty. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews