- Science
- Picture Books
- Ages 3–7
The shape of it
The shape of this universe.
Do Not Lick This Book is microbiologist Idan Ben-Barak and animator Julian Frost's series of gleefully silly interactive science picture books that smuggle real biology past giggling young readers. In the award-winning first title, children carry Min, a microbe too small to see, across the icy glaciers of a tooth and the tangled jungle of a shirt, revealed through genuine electron-microscope photographs. Its companion sends two hapless aliens building a human hand from the skeleton up, turning anatomy into a laugh-out-loud team effort. Bright cartoon art, participatory prompts to tilt, touch and rub the page, and a real science lesson underneath make these joyful read-alouds children beg to do all over again. Perfect for the very young and endlessly rereadable.
Gleefully silly interactive science picture books that teach microbes and anatomy through real microscope photos and touch-the-page fun; children beg to do the whole tour again.
The series
One way in.
Cultural footprint
A shelf of evidence.
What Do Not Lick This Book has done
- Major award winner
Cultural ubiquity
3/ 5Well-known to people who know the room.
Sensitivity
Low, and collection-wide.
Across the collection
All 2 books.
About the creator