Frightening Light
Author: Nick Arnold
Illustrator: Tony De Saulles
Book 11 in the Horrible Science series
Pages: 170
Published: 1999
Age: 8+
Frightening Light explains how eclipses turn day into night, why rattlesnakes can still find a person in the dark and why legs seem to bend under water. It includes fantastic fact files, curious quizzes, teacher tests and crazy cartoons.
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 . . .