Books for dads and bubs - the history of the universe

Gerard Cheshire's review of "Bang - scientifically accurate, rhyming, comic books which explain the history of pretty much everything!" by James L Dunbar.

This is an ambitious mission: to fit the history of the universe into three comic books. For its genre it reads very well, as it is contains some impressive drawing skill and the rhyming verse is quite pleasing. Inevitably, it falls short of scientific explanation in places - its says what happened, but fails to give in-depth reasons why, how, when. The sort of mind inclined to read these books is likely to need more information to be satisfied, but as an initiator of scientific enquiry I'd say these comic books would work very well. The key to effective scientific education is to get people inspired in the first place, so why not start with a BANG?

Check out jldunbar.com for more information about "BANG".

- Gerard Cheshire
Science writer and columnist: diyfather.com