<b>Ever look at the sky and wonder what makes it so blue? Or watch shadows shrink and grow as the day goes on? Find out the answers to these questions (plus 38 more!) with a book that explores color and light.</b><BR><BR>Light is all around us—it makes our planet green, grows our food, and allows us to see what’s going on. But it’s also mysterious: White light is actually made up of tons of colors, and there are even colors that we humans can’t see! The Exploratorium’s <i>Color and Light Science</i> offers oodles of fun, dynamic, and mind-blowing activities that help kids begin to understand the physics of light—all presented in a gorgeous, hands-on way that’s a far cry from your old middle school science book.<BR> <BR> Readers experiment with:<BR> <BR> DIY Rainbows<BR> Go on a Light Walk<BR> Colored Shadows<BR> The Green Flash<BR> Pinhole Camera<BR> Cyanotypes<BR> DIY Periscope<BR> Lightpainting<BR> Color Underwater<BR> Photosynthesis Exploration<BR> <BR> Plus, breakout spreads for every color in the spectrum teach kids about what makes the stuff all around them the color that it is—from hues that occur naturally to dyes we manufacture, from shades that we see every day to some that our eyes can’t even detect!