Electricity is at work all around you. It rings your doorbell and toasts your bread. It brings you television and starts your car. It milks cows and runs the press that printed this book.

Sometimes you can hear electricity when you stroke the cat on a dry winter day. You can see electricity when lightning flashes in a thunderstorm. But what is it and how does it work?

To understand electricity, you need to experiment on your own. The Junior Science Book of Electricity explains electricity through simple experiments that you can do yourself. The easy, step-by-step directions and the beautifully clear pictures point out the difference between static and current electricity, how a battery works, what we mean by conductors and insulators, how the electric switch works, what a fuse does, and what we mean by a short circuit.

Young scientists of all ages will find this book appealing.

From the dust jacket