Year : 2018, Volume : 5, Issue : 2
First page : ( 31) Last page : ( 36)
Print ISSN : 2320-530X. Online ISSN : 0000-0000. Published online : 2018  1.

Stephen hawking as a children’ Author

Nambiar Ananthan

Abstract

It is not uncommon for famous authors of adult literature to have also penned lesser-known but less lovely children's books - take care for instance, those by Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, James Joyce, E.E Cummings and Sylvia Plath. Famous scientists, on the other hand are more likely to become the subject of children's books rather than the author of one. But not so with Stephen Hawking. Hawking and his daughter Lucy published a series of children's books designed to explain science in an accessible fashion. The first one George's Secret Key to the Universe was published in 2007 and it was followed by George's Secret Key to the Universe, George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt, George and Big Bang, George and the Unbreakable Code and George and the Blue Moon. This article is an introduction to the above five books by the father and daughter.

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Keywords

Science Communication, Education, Teaching, Children, Children's Literature.

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