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Plate Tectonics for Everyone
Licensing Information
Published in February 2025
Selling Points
・A science picture book that clearly explains the causes of earthquakes.
・Learn the basics of earth science and “plate tectonics”.
・An educational picture book with easy-to-understand explanations and illustrations.
Why do earthquakes happen? A science picture book that explains the causes of earthquakes clearly.
The Earth on which we live is covered with large slabs of rock called “plates”.
Earthquakes happen because these plates are moving.
Why do plates move and cause earthquakes? Why do volcanoes erupt?
This is a science picture book that uses illustrations to explain the theory of “plate tectonics,” a basic theory in geoscience, in an easy-to-understand way.
- Size：263×196mm
- Pages：32Pages（Full Color）
- Binding：hardbound
- Publisher：PIE International
- Language：Japanese
- ISBN：978-4-7562-5833-5 Ｃ8744
- Author：Norihiro Odashima; Yoko Uetake
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Norihiro Odashima serves as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo City University, the Open University of Japan, and the College of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. As an earth science curator at the science museum, he is in charge of earth science education, focusing on regional geology and topography. His major editorial and translation works include “Kore dake wa shitte okitai ganseki kōbutsu zukan” (“My Book of Rocks and Minerals”) and “Kore dake wa shitte okitai kodomo zukan” (“An Encyclopedia of Very Important Things”) (both from PIE International) and “Monogatari no aru kōbutsu zukan” (“Mineral Encyclopedia Illustrated with Stories”) (Sansaibooks)
Yoko Uetake is a graduate of Tama Art University, School of Graphic Design. After working as a designer for a printing company, she became a freelance illustrator. She draws charming creatures while taking advantage of the texture of paper surfaces. The main books Uetake for which has done illustrations include the “Wake atte zetsumetsu shimashita” (“They Went Extinct for a Reason”) series (Diamond), “Yaba ka wa! Yuru sugo!! Marugoto same jiten” (“The Encyclopedia of Sharks”) (Poplar), and “Tsurete ko rareta dakenanoni” (“They Were Just Brought Here”) (Kaiseisha)
