John Haslam, Illustrator
Adam Bushnell, Author
Series: Kid Detectives
Imprint: Wayland
Publication date: September 11, 2025
Category: Science: general interest
ISBN: 9781526330260
Series: Kid Detectives
Imprint: Wayland
Publication date: June 11, 2026
Category: Science: general interest
ISBN: 9781526330253
Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.
Our four detectives, Farah, Isla, Mohammad and Sam, are on a school trip to the top of a brand-new super tall skyscraper when they notice some of the class are feeling dizzy. What could be causing this?
Join the Detective gang as they meet an engineer who will help them discover more about construction and engineering.
Featured interactive elements:
– Search and find clues in the illustrations
– Gather crucial information from info panels about earthquakes and wind pressure
– Work out the correct location for each key skyscraper part
– Help calculate the angle of a swaying skyscraper
Through interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.
Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.
John Haslam has been working as an illustrator for most of his professional life. John worked in advertising for 10 years and worked on various projects including TV storyboards, to illustrating for all kinds of accounts from Pritt Stick (the Pritt Stick Man was his invention), to comic pages such as Danger Mouse, Disney and Transformers.
Adam is a former teacher who turned his hand to writing full time in 2007. He has written both adult teaching guides and children’s fiction books and is often touring schools and libraries and running creative writing sessions. He lives in Durham.