Kid Detectives
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Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigating skills.
Our four detectives, Farah, Amelia, Mohammad and Sam, have entered an inter-school quiz competition. They need to study and prepare if they want to win. They meet the new librarian, who they soon find out is a robot powered by Artificial Intelligence! But something is wrong with her code...
Join the detectives as they learn how AI works. With the help of the school's IT technician, they'll soon figure out how to fix the librarian's code.
Featured interactive elements:
- Spot the glitch in the AI's neural network
- Spot the bug in the AI's code and correct it
- Gather crucial information from fact panels about how AI works
Through interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, the 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+.
Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigating skills.
Our four detectives, Farah, Amelia, Mohammad and Sam, spot a man at the beach digging around the rocks using some curious looking tools. On closer inspection, the friends uncover what the man was looking at - a bone set in stone.
Join the Detective gang as they meet a vet and palaeontologist, who will help them discover more about evolution, fossils and scientific research.
Interactive elements:
- Search and find clues in the illustrations
- Help the kids complete the full skeleton by placing the bones in the right place
- Gather crucial information from information panels about palaeontology and fossils
- Match the fossil to the correct animal skeleton
- Help the palaeontologist name the creature
Through interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, the 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+.
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 having a sleepover in the treehouse when they notice a mysterious light coming from Isla's neighbour's garden. It looks like some of the plants are glowing! But how can this be?
Join the Detective gang as they meet a botanist and a geneticist, who will help them discover more about plants, genes and DNA.
Featured interactive elements:
- Search and find clues in the illustrations
- Gather crucial information from info panels about genetics and bioluminescence
- Work out how to trick a snowdrop into flowering early and why roses have thorns
- Help the geneticist correctly reorder the steps in her diagram
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+.
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 Kid Detectives Isla, Farah, Sam and Mohammad are planning a fishing trip at their favourite spot at the local river. But when they arrive, they notice how the usually crystal-clear river has turned cloudy. What could be causing the pollution of the river?
Join the Detective gang as they meet a scientist who will help them discover what's wrong with the river water and what is causing the pollution. Does it have something to do with that grumpy looking farmer? Find out in The Peculiar Affair of Cloudy Water!
Featured interactive elements:
Looking for clues in the illustrations
Spotting how the river has been affected by the pollution
Spotting what is causing the pollution
Gathering crucial information from information panels about pollution
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+.
Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigating skills.
Our four detectives, Farah, Amelia, Mohammad and Sam, have won a contest and the prize is to visit the new deep-sea lab. When they get there they are enlisted by a marine biologist to help count the population of isopods in an are of the sea floor. When they give the scientist their numbers, she tells them that it is not what she expected. The isopod population has drastically declined since the last time they were counted a week ago. What has happened? She explains to them that something may have disrupted the ecosystem and impacted food chains.
As the kids go back into the submersible to take a closer look, they discover an unexpected predator and its presence may be due to the eruption of an underwater volcano heating up the sea floor.
Featured interactive elements:
Looking for clues in the illustrations
Understanding instruments used for deep sea exploration
Gathering crucial information from fact panels about ecosystems in the ocean depths
Through interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, the 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+.
Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigating skills.
Our four detectives, Farah, Amelia, Mohammad and Sam, are excited when they see their school installing solar panels and a wind turbine. A few days later, on a sunny but windy day, the power goes out halfway through a science lesson. The kids decide to investigate why the solar panels and wind turbine are failing to provide the school with the electricity they should be generating.
With the help of Isla's mum, Luan, an engineer the four friends learn how solar and wind energy works. The children (and reader) uncover what has gone wrong and what is preventing the solar panels and wind turbine from doing what they are supposed to do. The story ends with the children figuring the fixes needed and telling their teacher.
Featured interactive elements:
Looking for clues in the illustrations
Identifying tree species from a leaf
Gathering crucial information from fact panels about how solar panels andwind turibines work
Through interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, the 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+.
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+.
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 Kid Detectives Isla, Farah, Sam and Mohammad are at Space Camp and following a group of astronauts in training. Unfortunately their lead astronaut keeps experiencing some problems with her equipment and activities. She's the top in her class - what could be causing such trouble now?
Join the Detective gang as they attempt to work out the issues at Space Camp. Can they save the day?
Featured interactive elements:
Looking for clues in the illustrations
Comparing your weight on different planets
Spot the difference between two astronaut suits
Gathering crucial information from information panels about gravity, famous space missions and spacecraft
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+.