Science in Storybooks
Notions of space travel and nuclear power were increasingly normalized within the domestic sphere of American culture. Rocket ships and atomic symbols became icons of the 1950s and 1960s, alongside television and American suburbia.
About a thousand years ago when I first started to read, I was fired with ambition to be an illustrator. I even knew what kinds of books I wanted to illustrate—the ones that were called, ‘Information Books.’ Nobody called them science books then. Science was a majestic subject, certainly too complicated for children
