Secret Science: The Amazing World Beyond Your Eyes by Dara O'Briain
Children might think everyday life is boring but hoo-ee, are they wrong! Science is a non-stop EVERYWHERE, EVERYTHING adventure with some incredibly cool stuff going on, too. You've got your incredible brain, which has worked out how to read these words and make playing a video game feel as EXCITING as real life; you've got aeroplanes that can somehow get from the ground into the sky with all those people AND their luggage on board; you've got electricity and artificial intelligence and GPS (that's science too) and LOADS more.