The Big Questions

What is a ship-and how did boats, oceans, and engineering change the world?

Hi, my name is Ethan Solace-an interdisciplinary psychologist and dad. Picture books are often the first place children meet the wider world, yet we rarely consider who writes them-or the lasting impression they leave. I created The Big Questions series to make big topics exciting, age-appropriate, and genuinely engaging, without ever talking down to children.

In The Big Questions: What is a Ship?, kids set sail through maritime history for children and the science of how ships work-from the earliest boats and rafts to today's cargo ships and cruise ships, and onward to the future.

Inside, you'll explore:

• Ships and boats through time - from early rafts to mighty sailing ships

• Viking longships and fearless voyages across rough seas

• Explorers and ocean travel that connected the world

• Pirates (fact vs legend) and life on the high seas (handled age-appropriately)

• The rise of steamships and modern naval ships / warships

• The world of container ships and global trade routes

• Submarines for kids - diving beneath the waves into deep-sea mystery

• The biggest, fastest, most surprising ships ever built

• The future of transportation-what the "ships of tomorrow" might look like

Perfect for ages 5-12 (and a brilliant pick for classrooms, homeschooling, STEM learning, and bedtime reading). If your child loves transportation books, ocean facts, engineering, history, and how-things-work discoveries, this is the ship book they'll want to reread.

Grab your copy today-and let your child's curiosity sail beyond the horizon.