Natural sciences between art, storytelling, play and "magic"

Abstract

Children's book authors have found multiple strategies to tell the reality that surrounds us, sometimes showing the most hidden aspects, other times focusing on the specifics of the various disciplinary fields.

In the picture books the best science communicators manage to create an inseparable union between art, storytelling and play. Page after page the pleasure of research mixes with the amazement of discovery, with the sense of wonder and with the desire to always know more.

Through a playful-interactive approach, apps for smartphones and tablets stage the magic of the transformation of materials and allow young users to experience, directly on the screen, the effects of their actions. Augmented reality then allows images to erupt out of the page and to move.

Therefore, if each dissemination tool has its specificities, it is necessary to look out for those narrative situations that arouse curiosity rather than circumscribe knowledge.