Mike Barfield
Amazing Discoveries That Changed the World
Price: £10.99
Imprint: Buster Books
Publication date: 11/09/2025
ISBN: 9781837250257
Age: 9-11 years
Subject: Non-Fiction
Category: Buster Reference
Binding: Paperback
Size: 280 x 216 mm
Extent: 128 pages
Illustration: Full colour
Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)
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The fourth book in a series that has sold over 100,000 copies in the English language alone and been translated in over 20 languages, following on from A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You, A Day in the Life of a Caveman, a Queen and Everything in Between and A Day in the Life of an Astronaut, Mars and the Distant Stars
A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You was the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2021
The book is split into four sections: ‘Science and Medicine’, ‘People and Places’, ‘The Natural World’ and ‘Oops! Accidental Inventions’
The comics are told by a range of human, animal and inanimate objects, offering a fresh perspective on some of the world’s most famous discoveries
Written by award-winning author and illustrator team, Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley
Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to King’s College London where he gained a first class honours degree in botany and zoology. After a career in comedy writing for TV and radio, he turned to creating award-winning non-fiction for children built on his love of science and finding things out. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Children’s Book Award 2021 in the ‘Best Book with Facts’ category, and has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association for Science Education Children’s Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Children’s Science Books (twice). His website can be found at www.mikebarfield.co.uk.
Jess Bradley is an illustrator and comic artist from Torquay. As well as writing and drawing for The Phoenix, she also writes for The Beano and illustrates a variety of children’s books. She has created puzzle and activity and comic books for various publishers, including contributing to Usborne’s bestselling Write and Draw Your Own Comics. Her work for Buster Books includes the Bright Sparks series, I Heart Cute Colouring and the laugh-out-loud A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You.