I used to love those educational books about nature with lots of pictures and colors, cartoon characters with names and personality explaining the human body, that sort of thing. The book would explain lightning and there would be this anthropomorphic character going "woah! That's so scary!" so it felt like we're learning together… Know what I mean?
Now I'm an adult, my general knowledge is pretty good, and I'd like something like that but on the level of advanced high school or up.
There are popular science books that try to explain things in an accessible way (like "A Brief History of Time"), and the most common thing is that they skip the math. But I want something different, math is not a problem for me at all, it can have all the equations. I just have no attention span for long bits of text that aren't a story.
Maybe there's a book that's like a textbook, but with characters and a plot? I'm thinking a visual form would help too, illustrations, arrows and text boxes, things marked in color, etc.
Anyone know something like that? I'm most interested in natural sciences, but I'm curious about any suggestions at all.
by Much-Ad6501