Picture books for ages 3 to 7
Indian scientists
Each of these scientists began with the kind of question a four-year-old asks. Why is the sea blue? How do birds stay up in the sky? Can a number be interesting? How far away are the stars? The books follow them from that first question to the answer, in short pages for reading aloud.
Srinivasa Ramanujan
A harbour clerk with no degree, whose letter full of new ideas amazed a professor at Cambridge.
C. V. Raman
He asked why the sea is blue, and the answer led to Asia's first Nobel Prize in science.
Dr. Abdul Kalam
He was not chosen to be a pilot, so he became the scientist who led the rocket that carried India's satellite into space.
Kalpana Chawla
An aeroplane engineer who trained for years at NASA and flew on the space shuttle twice.