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Clive Gifford, Author
Chelen Écija, Illustrator
Series: Super Tech
Imprint: Wayland
Publication date: August 28, 2025
Category: Science: general interest
ISBN: 9781526325747
Series: Super Tech
Imprint: Wayland
Publication date: November 14, 2024
Category: Science: general interest
ISBN: 9781526325730
Did you know there’s a robot chef that can make 50 pizzas per hour? Would you swim with a robotic fish that gulps up microplastics in the ocean? Find out how the technology works and become an expert in all things robotics – from LiDAR sensors and autonomous drones to nanobots and robot swarms.
Super Tech explores the cutting-edge technology in your home, up in space and even inside your body, and gives you a glimpse into the tech of the future. Informative, accessible facts are combined with a mix of photography and playful illustration that’s perfect for readers 7 and up.
Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children’s books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards’ Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive’s official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk
Chelen was born in sunny Spain with a silver crayon in her mouth. She started drawing on restaurant placemats at age 2 and now she cant stop illustrating. She is also addicted to traveling, eating sunflower seeds and buying new books. She finished her Fine Arts degree at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and then she worked in Chicago as the art director of a toy company. Now she is back in Europe, working as a freelance illustrator where she has specialized in her true passion: hand lettering and childrens illustration. Her style is witty and upbeat. Letterforms hog the spotlight in her illustrations. Serifs, sans serifs, ligatures, numerals and small caps compose her visual vocabulary and she enjoys mixing these with lovable animals and characters. Chelen is the representative of Spain at the European Illustrators Forum and she enjoys giving lectures about illustration that help other illustrators that are starting out. She also sits on the board at APIM, the Association of Professional Illustrators of Madrid.