Books by Shar Levine

You Build It TV Remote Control (SmartLab)

by Clive Gifford, Leslie Johnstone, Shar Levine

Take control! Kids build the remote themselves and gain hands-on experience with the science of light and energy.
Includes everything kids need to build a working remote control (for use with home TV and VCR).
Kids build and program this universal remote to discover how light and energy make channel surfing possible.

USA TODAY Weather Wonders Book & Kit

by Leslie Johnstone, Shar Levine, Michael A. DiSpezio

USA TODAY makes it fun for kids to find out about everything from hurricanes to humidity, sunny days to stormy skies! This interactive kit features lots of exciting materials, starting with USA TODAY Weather Wonders, an 80-page full-color book that’s jam-packed with experiments, fun facts, and hilarious jokes. And that’s not all! Budding meteorologists will check which way the wind is blowing with the white cloud-patterned windsock, and keep track of what’s happening outside with the USA TODAY dry-erase weather map of the United States and four dry-erase colored markers. It’s a great gift!

The Ultimate Guide to Your Microscope

by Leslie Johnstone, Shar Levine

Get our your microscope and take a close-up look at a tiny world! This book by two award-winning science authors shows you how.

Looking at little things—things too small to see with the naked eye—can be big fun. It’s certainly smart science, and award-winning authors Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone are here to show kids the basics of creating their own professional-quality slides and using their own microscopes. A whole world will open up to budding scientists as they learn to identify the microscope’s different pieces, practice focusing, and prepare different kinds of samples for viewing. Illustrated throughout with photomicrographs (pictures taken through a microscope), and complete with a reproducible form for documenting specimens, this fascinating, in-depth guide explains how to put bugs, water, food, plants and pollen, and even parts of the body (like fingernails) under the scope for a close-up glimpse. Of course, there are troubleshooting answers to common questions and safety instructions for parents and teachers, too.

SMARTLAB: Indoor/Outdoor Microscope (Smartlab)

by Shar Levine

Kids, and adults alike, will be hooked after peering through this super-powered microscope! Commonly found items, such as newspapers, pencil strokes, flower petals, bugs, and even clothing fibers, look amazingly detailed when magnified 40 times their normal size. There's no limit to what can be explored: Use the stand to view prepared slides, or remove the microscope from the stand and head outdoors!

Includes:
4-inch 40X microscope
microscope stand
four prepared slides + two blank slides
tweezers and dropper
two collection vials
outdoor carrying case
lanyard with microscope clip
32-page fully illustrated book

Extreme 3-D: Weird Animals

by Leslie Johnstone, Shar Levine, Elaine Humphrey

How can something so tiny be so … nasty? That’s the question that comes to mind with Extreme 3-D: Weird Animals. Strange creatures of all shapes and sizes, living everywhere from the backyard to just under the fingernails, can be seen up close — magnified 10,000 times — in nearly 100 3-D photographs. The book includes special glasses with colorful plastic frames for viewing these miniature monsters, each of which gets its own profile with fun facts.

Extreme 3-D Scary Bugs

by Shar Levine

Yuck! Nothing’s creepier than a big, hairy spider — unless it’s a big hairy spider in extreme 3-D! High-powered scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) and 3-D images allow young readers to get close — really, really close — to ants, bees, dragonflies, millipedes, and other creepy-crawlies in this extraordinary and educational book. Each spread features awesome 3-D photographs that children can check out with the ultra-cool glasses included with the book, as well as plenty of fun, fascinating facts like where ants go to the bathroom.