Mike Barfield
Price: £10.99
Imprint: Buster Books
Publication date: 10/09/2026
ISBN: 9781837250707
Age: 9-11 years
Subject: Non-Fiction
Category: Buster Reference
Binding: Paperback
Size: 280 x 216 mm
Extent: 96 pages
Illustration: Full colour
Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)
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Enquire nowBy Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley, the award-winning writer-illustrator duo behind the ‘A Day in the Life of’ series of books, which sold over 150,000 copies in the English language alone and has been translated into over 25 languages worldwide.
The follow-up to ‘Planet Earth: My Life So Far’, also by Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley, translated in over 10 languages
Fun comic strips, simple diagrams and colourful art are all used in the book to make science simple, understandable and fun for young readers at Key Stage 2 in the UK curriculum.
The book is divided into three chapters: Only Natural (Living Things), What’s the Matter (Chemistry) and Hi Energy (Physics)
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.