Really Rotten Experiments
Author: Nick Arnold
Illustrator: Tony De Saulles
Book 20 in the Horrible Science series
Pages: 208
Published: 2004
Age: 8+
Really Rotten Experiments is packed with loud, noisy, wet and soggy experiments that are guaranteed to give kids an appetite for scientific discovery. Along the way they will found out who invented pong-free underpants, which strange scientists ate tadpoles for tea and discover a revolting recipe for green slime. With crazy cartoons, queasy quizzes and a terrible term at Rotten Road School, Really Rotten Experiments is simply oozing with info!
Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (2004); Junior Aventis Science Book Prize (2004)
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 . . .