Bulging Brains
Author: Nick Arnold
Illustrator: Tony De Saulles
Book 9 in the Horrible Science series
Pages: 160
Published: 1999
Age: 8+
Bulging Brains is full of the most squishing, gooey and stinky facts about the human brain! It looks like a huge grey bogey or something you'd step in by mistake - but your incredible brain holds all your knowledge, dreams and feelings. Even if your teacher won't admit it, it's amazing! You'll see: what happens if you cut your brain in half, what your brain bits 'n' pieces do, how to do your own brilliant brain surgery and why it's clever to feel pain.
About the Horrible Science Series
Books in series order
- 1.Blood, Bones and Body Bits(1996)
- 2.Ugly Bugs(1996)
- 3.Chemical Chaos(1997)
- 4.Fatal Forces(1997)
- 5.Nasty Nature(1997)
- 6.Disgusting Digestion(1998)
- 7.Sounds Dreadful(1998)
- 8.Vicious Veg(1998)
- 9.Bulging Brains(1999)
- 10.Evolve or Die(1999)
- 11.Frightening Light(1999)
- 12.Deadly Diseases(2000)
- 13.Shocking Electricity(2000)
- 14.Killer Energy(2001)
- 15.Suffering Scientists(2001)
- 16.Microscopic Monsters(2001)
- 17.Body Owner's Handbook(2002)
- 18.Terrible Time(2002)
- 19.Space, Stars and Slimy Aliens(2003)
- 20.Really Rotten Experiments(2004)
- 21.Frightful Flight(2004)
- 22.Painful Poison(2004)
- 23.Angry Animals(2005)
- 24.Measly Medicine(2006)
- 25.Evil Inventions(2007)
- 26.Sick! From Measley Medicine To Savage Surgery(2009)
- 27.Wasted World(2009)
- 28.House of Horrors(2012)
- +How to Draw Horrible Science(2010)
- +The Horrible Science of Everything(2008)
Reading age: 8+ years
Welcome to the explosive world of Horrible Science! It's science with the squishy bits left in.
Most people think that science is serious. Seriously dreary, seriously brain-dead and seriously boring. But most people are wrong. Science isn't boring - it's horrible! And when science is horrible it comes to life in an exciting way . . .