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Pocket Science: Explosive Science

Incredible Forces and Reactions

Tom Jackson, Author

Cathryn Gilbert, Illustrator

Series: Pocket Science

Imprint: Wayland

Publication date: September 10, 2026

Category: General knowledge & trivia (Children's / Teenage)

ISBN: 9781526326676

Series: Pocket Science

Imprint: Wayland

Publication date: April 8, 2027

Category: General knowledge & trivia (Children's / Teenage)

ISBN: 9781526326683

The books look at science from an exploration of wonder point of view – covering key curriculum areas but through a high interest approach covering strange phenomenon, unusual and entertaining facts, looking at how science can be an essential survival tool. These titles are highly collectible and transportable companions for science-spotters everywhere.

Tom Jackson

Tom Jackson has been a writer for 20 years. He has written more than 80 books and contributed to hundreds more. Tom gets to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, his specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Tom spends his days finding fun ways of communicating these kinds of facts, new and old, to all age groups and reading abilities.

Tom lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and three children. He studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. Tom has also worked as a conservationist, which saw him planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing wildlife from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken him to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rain forest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, he can be found mainly in the attic.