Newton is Floating

About this book

One day, milk won’t pour into a glass, and Newton the dog won’t sit. Problem is, he can’t, because everything is floating: the park benches are hovering in the air, the bikes are upside down and the pigeons are in serious danger of breaching the earth’s atmosphere. 

If you’re a kid, a sudden lack of gravity has it’s upsides. Playgrounds take on a new lease of life when you can’t fall off things, and putting ketchup on a sausage is a fun new challenge. Supermarket shopping becomes a game with fishing nets and a lasso. 

Yet, not having gravity do its job is not actually all that fun. The motorways are in chaos, herding sheep is a nightmare and the balloon man is having the worst day’s sales ever. The universe is out of control! If only someone could turn the gravity back on… 

McLaughlin and Hunt’s brilliantly anarchic and fun picture book about what would happen without gravity is an original gem which is both genuinely funny and thought-provoking. At the end of the book there’s a great guide to the science of gravity, explaining how it works and why it’s there, as well as key information on Isaac Newton and other famous scientists such as Mary Jackson and Jocelyn Bell Burnell who were instrumental in various gravity-related breakthroughs.