This book asks a deceptively simple question: what makes knowledge scientific?

Rather than presenting science as a collection of established facts, it shows readers how scientific knowledge develops. The story explains hypotheses, experiments, observation, control groups, repeatability, evidence and scientific theories through clear examples and historical episodes.

Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Alfred Wegener, Alexander Fleming, Thor Heyerdahl and other researchers appear throughout the book. But the focus is not simply on who discovered what. Readers see how these people asked questions, tested ideas, challenged accepted beliefs and sometimes proved themselves wrong.

That approach gives the title a second layer of relevance.

Children today constantly encounter claims, opinions and unverified information. The book shows them how to ask better questions, check evidence and distinguish an assumption from a conclusion supported by facts.

For publishers, this makes What Is Science? In Comics both an engaging nonfiction title and a strong supplement to science education and the wider school curriculum.