You can't always believe a blurb, but I'm gonna say Macaulay has totally earned the "master explainer" title. I'm very impressed by his ability to take a complicated subject and break it down into understandable parts for young readers. The illustrations are great, too. I highly recommend this whole series! ( )

How can you see that your shirt is on inside out? How do you see the soccer ball coming right at you? How do you know which players are on your team? It all starts with light–and with the amazing human eye.

A misleading title. Optics and vision are so hard to understand correctly that it seems that almost any simplification will be actually misleading. Nice illustrations of the structure of the eye, though. ( )

Information about your eye told within the format of a soccer game. Information is presented paragraph style. Drawings show how the eye works in a realistic way. Index and glossary in back to aid in definitions and ease of finding information.