Books by John Barnett

When Fred Roll, Windy B's favourite baker, opened his bedroom window very early one bitterly cold January morning, he knew things were not as they should be. A short while later, an unexpected visitor arrived through the heavy snow and gave Fred a challenge he certainly was not expecting. For Fred, his wife Heidi, and everybody living in wonderful Bumble Bay, the snow adventures that followed would be talked about for many years to come.

An illustrated history of a single atom of carbon, tracing its many manifestations from the Big Bang to the present.Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey is an illustrated adaptation of 'Carbon,' a short story from Italian chemist, writer, and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi. It traces the life story and many molecular manifestations of a single atom of this life-essential element.You'll follow one atom from its spectacular birth 14 billion years ago through its harrowing journey on planet earth where it has become a basic building block of nearly 10 million known compounds in living things. Along the way, you'll learn that it is breathed in by the Peregrine Falcon; it is dissolved in the ocean before making its way back into the atmosphere; it is found in your pencil as well as in your liver; it helps trees grow strong and tall; and it even lets a moth's eye make sense of light.