Exploring nature’s pattern magic

Patterns in nature are beautiful. Exploring Nature's Pattern Magic by Dee and Mike Pignéguy is an ingenious, well designed book that captures those spectacular forms - from spirals to fractals, and crystals to camouflage.

There is a lot of fascinating scientific information in here, presented in neat bite-sized snippets. Here's some things I learned:

• The patterns you see in rose petals are equiangular spirals.
• Spheres are circles in three dimensions.
• The head of the marine iguana is a study in tessellations.
• There are Fibonacci patterns in pineapples.

There's an action point in each chapter, encouraging kids to find examples in nature and lots more activities at the back.

I think adults will like this as much as kids. Yay science!

For more information, visit Dee's website Feed me right.

Science for kids

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• Books on nature
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