See Hear: Playing with Light and Sound

Joan Weller is head librarian at the West Branch of Ottawa Public
Library, and the children’s literature reviewer for the Ottawa
Citizen.

Kudos for the text and the format of this important book. The author has
simplified the subject without condescending to its young-adult
audience.

See Hear is written in an engaging style and aimed at children doing
research or preparing science fair entries. It is divided into two
sections: “Hearing and Sound” and “Light and Sight.” Each
section first explains the facts, and then includes applied experiments
and interesting related trivia. Set in large print with clearly labeled
instructions, the book provides explanations for and/or instructions
about how Beethoven could hear his compositions while he was deaf, how
to track thunderstorms, how to measure temperature with crickets, how to
make water seem to go back into the tap, how to slow time, and why so
many cars crash into trains at railway crossings, as well as about other
things.

The table of contents is detailed and a glossary is included—but an
index would have made some information easier to access. Nonetheless
this book is recommended.