Science Comics: Bridges is a must have for every classroom!! Kids and teachers both love the Science Comics series, and it's great seeing topics other than animals! Future engineers and curious kids alike will love this one!

Science Comics Bridges takes the reader through a journey to discover the engineering and architecture of bridges. The text is fairly dense, so I think this could be appropriate all the way up through middle-grade readers.

A STEM graphic novel series I have come to enjoy, as students gravitate to these informational texts because they are in graphic form. However, they are so. informational and applicable to life, they bring students into a world of learning unnoticeably. Love the inclusiveness in the graphics and found the vocabulary to be appropriate.

Great information, but tries a bit too hard with the wacky characters and frantic jumping around from place to place and through a bunch of information. There's no breathing room to take in the details, although I found the excitement contagious by the end. Very cool seeing all the example bridges. I would have liked more about the "build your own bridge" idea to encourage hands-on understanding of the information.

A graphic novel education of bridges with 4 imaginary characters that explores the 4 basic types of bridges, the physics and loads that bridge engineers have to take into account, and highlights bridges from all over the world as examples while also showing how they work to hold their loads.

This newest volume in the Science Comics series does a great job explaining the basics of the science behind bridge building and how successful bridges distribute their loads. It just covers the basics of that science and doesn’t go into any complicated formulas or anything, but I felt like the explanation was sufficient for the target audience. There are some suggested activities presented that readers can easily do to experience the science firsthand. The information is presented in an engaging way, and the bridges highlighted were a diverse selection from all over the world. A great new addition to the Science Comics series that will be especially popular with future engineers and world travelers who can go hunt for the bridges in their upcoming adventures.

Notes on content [based on ARC]: No language issues. No sexual content. Some bridge failures are mentioned, but no fatalities described. (Death of a dog on one is briefly mentioned.)

I received an ARC of this title from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I have enjoyed other Science Comics and was looking forward to this one, but I was disappointed. It was too hard to read and had too much on each page. I could see kids getting overwhelmed and distracted with this book.

I’ve purchased most (if not all) of the Science Comics books for our juv nonfiction collection, but this was the first one I’ve actually read. I SO appreciate the growth of presenting nonfiction in the graphic format. Bridges has bright colors, characters who take readers through the scientific process, the history of bridges, beautiful constructions of bridges, and more. These are great for 8-11 year olds who always ask questions and have more curiosity than they can hold.

I really wanted to love this book and series, but I had a lot of difficulty with engaging with the information in this format. I almost think it would have been better as an illustrated text, rather than a graphic novel. It's really text and information heavy, and doesn't really have that balance of imagery and text that is so important to graphic novels. It also can be difficult to know how to read, whereas a graphic novel has a pretty good flow from image to image usually. I love the idea of nonfiction graphic novels, but this one just didn't work for me.

I received an arc from NetGalley for an honest review. These science comics are a huge hit, and this one on bridges is no different. Readers get a chance to learn something and read in their favorite form, a graphic novel.

Another solid offering from Science Comics about the science of bridges. The narrative guides this time are the BATS, standing for common bridge methods: Beam, Arch, Truss, and Suspension, and also the reference that they, like bats, hang around bridges. Each person gets to point out the effective measures of their chosen bridge type, and a wide range of examples are given: from the hand woven suspension bridge of the Inca, to the photographed Golden Gate, and the fairy bridge Xianteng in China.

The science portion focuses a lot on how compression and tension work to keep the bridge standing, suggesting kids try their own model bridge building, but doesn't delve too much into it. Another section that might have done with expansion was the section on very famous bridge failures, like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which became the catastrophe that taught engineers to calculate for wind resistance in any bridge, a term they reference but don't elaborate on.

In terms of the Science Comics collection I would put this more as a browsing graphic novel than a pure engineering one. The narrators are entertaining in their capacity as methods for conveying information, there are the usual groaner puns I always look forward to, and the art style works for the subject matter although it isn't as accessibly cartoony as "Trees" or "Dogs" for the artistically picky kids.