Great Lives in Graphics: Marie CurieButton BooksLabel: Button BooksDescription: You may already know that Marie Curie was a scientific genius who pioneered the study of radioactivity but did you know that she changed her name to Marie to sound more French? Or that her body’s so radioactive she had to be buried in a lead coffin?Great Lives in Graphics reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolour presenting 250+ biographical facts in a new and exciting way. It takes the essential dates and achievements of each person’s life mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia and uses infographics to show them in a fresh visual way that is genuinely engaging for children and young adults. The result is a colourful fascinating and often surprising representation of that person’s life work and legacy. Using timelines maps repeated motifs and many more beautiful and informative illustrations readers learn not just about the main subject of the book but also about the cultural background of the time in which they lived.
