Who said science books for children can’t be fun‎?‎ Reflecting the popularity of educational comics‎,‎ World Book introduces its first graphic nonfiction series‎,‎ Building Blocks of Science‎.‎

Each fun science book volume features a whimsical character to guide the reader through a physical science topic‎,‎ a key part of the science curriculum for elementary students‎.‎ The cast of characters includes Gravity‎,‎ Magnetism‎,‎ Matter‎,‎ Energy‎,‎ Light‎,‎ Sound‎,‎ Electricity‎,‎ Force and Motion‎,‎ and Heat‎.‎ The topic of matter is broken into two volumes‎:‎ Matter and How It Changes and Matter and Its Properties‎.‎

The 10 volumes in this educational comic series feature highly original and humorous comic‎-style art to draw children into the material‎.‎ Several spreads in each volume are illustrated with photographs to help clarify concepts and part of the elementary science curriculum‎.‎ The volumes also include features typically found in nonfiction books‎,‎ such as a table of contents‎,‎ glossary‎,‎ list of additional print and Internet resources‎,‎ and an index‎.‎