Why Can't I Feel the Earth Spinning? is an irreverent and informative introduction to tricky questions about science. How do we know what dinosaurs looked like? Why does medicine taste so bad? Why don't airplanes fall down? Why Can't I Feel the Earth Spinning? encourages children to start asking and answering questions for themselves. The book is structured around twenty-two questions. Each section explores the question and answer with detailed illustrations, photographs, or diagrams and then asks further questions on a similar theme. Children learn about how their bodies work, why trees' leaves are green, why people dream, and whether "The Cloud" is really a cloud. Written with humor and full of fun illustrations, Why Can't I Feel the Earth Spinning? is the perfect primer for young inquisitive minds and budding scientists.

Includes index.

What Is Science? -- Why Are Trees Green? -- How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Looked Like? -- What Do Plants Eat? -- Why Do I Have to Wash? -- Are Maps Always Right? -- Why Does My Hair Grow? -- Why Does Medicine Taste So Bad? -- How Do Surgeons Know What To Take Out? -- Why Is Bread Full Of Bubbles? -- Why Do Stars Twinkle? -- How Was The Earth Made? -- What's Inside A Black Hole? -- Why Do Sirens Sound Weird When They Go Past? -- How Do Airplanes Stay Up? -- How Do We Know The World Is Round? -- Why Is the Sea Blue? -- Where Do Mountains Come From? -- What Makes Thunder And Lightning? -- Could I Live On Mars? -- Is "The Cloud" A Real Cloud? -- Why Do I Dream?.