8 Microbes, Bugs and Wonder Drugs Fran Balkwill and Mic Rolph, with Victor Darley-Usmar, Illustrated by Mic Rolph Teachers Notes Drugs are an important part of your world. The science of the 'wonder drugs' that have shaped human health and history, focusing on the drugs that children and teenagers will most likely have come into contact with, whether they be aspirin or alcohol, penicillin or cannabis. This is the first book in this series of highly illustrated, ground-breaking science books aimed at young readers and their families.
Every page is illustrated with full-colour pictures with cleverly incorporated text.
Fran Balkwill and Mic Rolph have published five other successful full-colour children's' books, including two which won Science Book of the Year prizes. Victor Darley-Usmar is a research biochemist in industry. Nothing's New introduces the concept of drugs and gives a short introduction to cell and molecular biology. Microbes Bugs and Wonder Drugs charts the battle of the human race against its smallest and deadliest enemies, bacteria and viruses. Rebel Cells explains what cancer is, how rare it is in children, and how some cancers, like leukaemia, can now be cured.