From Bam! to Burp!

Follow the carbon atom from its creation millions of years ago to today. It’s been part of many things—from early volcanic gases, to plants the dinosaurs devoured, to your breakfast burp!

By award-winning children’s author Melissa Stewart, this epic nonfiction picture book for 5-9-year-olds is a perfect mash-up of science and history that STEM-seekers will eat up!

Follow the carbon atom on an epic adventure! Scientists say a collision happened billions of years ago between the young Earth and a smaller body they call Theia. Carbon atoms were trapped inside the Earth’s crust after this collision until a volcano erupted, thrusting tons of ash and gases—including the CO2 team—high into the sky. The carbon atom headed off!

Over millions of years, carbon has been part of all kinds of things, including dozens of plants and animals, plus plenty of objects that come from living things. The carbon atom and its two oxygen buddies can even build a sugar molecule in a towering sugar maple tree. When the watery sap boils in a giant vat, it becomes thick, sweet maple syrup. That syrup might end up on YOUR pancakes. When you let out a deep breath, the CO2 team leaves your lungs. As it rises up, up through your throat . . . BURP!

You never know where a carbon atom will go next. . . . Get ready to take off on an epic ride, full of science and history, and go From BAM! to BURP!