Nick Arnold
Tony De Saulles
If you can stomach the sick side of science, then Horrible Science is for you!
Nick Arnold and Tony de Saulles are the award-winning author illustrator combo who bring the books to you in all their revolting glory! Remember, don't go near these books if you're squeamish, because this really is science with the squishy bits left in!
Science has never been so horrible!
Appearing:
GALA DAY at Hartlepool (November 18th)
Author Website
www.nickarnold-website.com
Nick Arnold
Horrible Science author Nick Arnold has been writing
books and stories since he was a lad. Even in those days his
favourite subjects for stories were horrible goings-on - the
more gruesome the better. So you see, he hasn’t changed a bit.
Nick’s first published books appeared seven years ago when he
was working at the University of North London on a project
teaching children about nature. This led on to magazine articles. And one day Nick had a brilliant idea, if he could write articles he could write books... Since then Nick has lost count of the number of books he’s written.
He teamed up with Scholastic and the best-selling/award-winning series, Horrible Science was created. There’s currently thirteen titles on sale - from Ugly Bugs about the ugly secrets of creepy-crawlies and their revolting relatives the insects to Blood, Bones & Body Bits which probes the sickly sinister side of the awesome human anatomy. There’s also Chemical Chaos, Nasty Nature, Fatal Forces, Disgusting Digestion, and Sounds Dreadful Vicious Veg digs up the dirt on the world of plants and Bulging Brains puts your grey matter under the spotlight. Read Frightening Light to find out how eclipses turn day to night and what makes your legs look bendy in the swimming pool! Shocking Electricity provides all the electrifying facts you could ever need, while Suffering Scientists provides the low down on scientists and their discoveries, breakthroughs and experiments, and Deadly Diseases dishes the dirt on some seriously dangerous illnesses. The Awfully Big Horrible Science Quiz Book is a real hit as are Microscopic Monsters, Explosive Experiments, Killer Energy and Angry Animals. The latest book to hit the shelves is The Stunning Science of Everything, a full colour hardback which reveals all you could ever want to know about science and much more!
Ugly Bugs and Blood Bones & Body Bits won the prestigious Rhône-Poulenc Junior Science Books Prize in 1997 while Really Rotten Experiments picked up the Junior Aventis Science Book Prize 2004. Nick also had the honour of being a judge for the Rhône-Poulenc Prize for Science. Most recently Nick has also been nominated for the 2005 Descartes Prize for Science Communication for Really Rotten Experiments which will be awarded at a ceremony in London in December 2005.
When he’s not writing books, Nick is constantly taking his one-person show to bookshops, libraries and festivals. The show is everything you would expect from a Horrible Science book, packed with revolting experiments and gory descriptions.
Tony De Saulles
Tony De Saulles lives in Cheltenham with his wife and two children. He has been drawing silly pictures for as long as he can remember, and is very pleased to be getting paid for it!
He trained for one year at the West Surrey College of Art and Design and a further three at The London College of Printing. He has a varied background in design, having worked in advertising, general graphics and book design. His time is now spent illustrating, presenting events at book fairs, going for long walks and playing squash. He also likes to take the occasional art class at his children’s primary school.
As well as being a dab hand at cartoons, Tony writes poems for children and had a collection published which appeared as an illustrated book and an interactive CD ROM. He is currently writing and illustrating a new non-fiction series for Scholastic.
Tony is the illustrator of the extremely popular and nasty - Horrible Science series by Nick Arnold. There are now over twenty titles, each one more gruesome than the next!
There’s currently over twenty titles on sale – including Ugly Bugs, Blood, Bones and Body Bits, Chemical Chaos, Nasty Nature and Disgusting Digestion to name but a few. Nick’s most recent books are Explosive Experiments, Killer Energy and a fabulous new hardback, The Stunning Science of Everything.
Ugly Bugs and Blood Bones & Body Bits won the prestigious Rhône-Poulenc Junior Science Books Prize in 1997.
Tony along with Nick have been joint winners of the Aventis Prize for Science Books.
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Stunning Science of Everything
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Publisher
Scholastic