Edit: thank you for sharing your suggestions, everyone. I’ll try to check out the ones I haven’t read. Hopefully the responses in this thread were helpful for you too. <3

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    18 hours ago

    “What Is a Laser?”

    When I saw that book in the elementary school library it was a revelation: There are books explaining the cool mysterious stuff like that! And written for kids to understand!

    I think that one book is a big part of what sent me on the path to geekdom.

    It wasn’t technically my first nonfiction science book, which would be “Our Friend the Atom” but I wasn’t old enough to actually read that when I had it (probably got destroyed before I could). I liked the pictures though.