Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Carl Jung, James Cameron Stewart, et al.
4.7 on Amazon
3 HN comments
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
Benjamin Lorr
4.4 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Christina Thompson
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
Safi Bahcall, William Dufris, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
Richard Louv
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
Robert Lanza and Bob Berman
4.4 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Organic Chemistry
Paula Bruice
4.4 on Amazon
3 HN comments
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
Donald Hoffman, Timothy Andrés Pabon, et al.
4.4 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It
Mark Seidenberg
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword, et al.
4.4 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality
Ben Orlin
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
Kevin Mitnick
4.5 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Big Fat Surprise (Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet)
Nina Teicholz
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Lost Words
Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition
Jeff Lowenfels
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
DanBConJune 16, 2019
As children moved to towns and cites and away from the countryside their language changed. This caused children's dictionaries to drop some words and add others.
The Lost Words documents some of these changes.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Words-Robert-Macfarlane/dp/024...
(I haven't got it yet, I keep meaning to buy it and never getting around to it).
DanBConJuly 13, 2018
Hello Ruby. Adventures in coding https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1250065003/ (But I might spend mroe time with a Scratch book).
Nine Open Arms https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1743315856
My Little Book of Big Freedoms https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1780555067
The Lost Words https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241253586
All of those are perhaps a bit "worthy", and we read a load of other books. We're going to make our way through anything published by Little Gems. These are small, short, books with a clear font and nice illustration. I think these are great for reluctant or new readers. Here's one example, but they have a load: Mr Birdnest and the House Next Door (lovely illustration by Hannah Shaw) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Birdsnest-House-Next-Door-Little/dp...
And things like The London Eye Mystery (which may be a bit too old for my child, we'll see how it goes) https://www.amazon.co.uk/London-Eye-Mystery-Siobhan-Dowd/dp/...
We're still reading a few heavily illustrated books. I love Kate Hindley's work, so I'm buying The Knight Who Said No! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knight-Who-Said-No/dp/1788002083