Internet and its usage in kid’s lives has become an inevitable part of life. Here comes a book that talks about technology and explains it too for kids in simple terms.
Shalini Satish and Raam Baranidharan have written the The Little Book of Cool Technology and the book that is over 100 pages gives in detail a perspective of the terms we use like websites, domains, search engines, cyber safety to name a few. The book is published by HarperCollins Children’s Books
There are activity sheets where kids can work on like scrabble, do the activities by going to a browser and search for the listed things to be found out.
The illustrations by Nishi Banka make the book more colorful and it does make a ready reckoner for kids to use for reference on Internet/ Technology and its terminology.
Wi-fi, website, buffering, search engines, routers and so many terms we adults use in our daily life but it becomes a little difficult to explain it to the child at home. The Little Handbook of Cool Technology makes it much simpler even for parents to explain the technology terms.
The font size is huge enough and kid friendly while the pictures using the two main characters of Alia and Copa are attractive and make the book and its text that is supposed to be learning based more fun and light.
Mums and Stories recommends the book for kids in the age group of 9-13 year olds.