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How to Make Diamonds From Your Pencils

by Swapna Haddow

Paperback £10.99
Published 12th March 2026
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Description

Bonkers dilemmas that can be solved with science and a bunch of brilliant chemistry experiments.

Survive at sea with pirates! Carry a dinosaur egg across the jungle! Send secret messages! Make diamonds from pencils!

Explore a bunch of ridiculous (and not-so-ridiculous) dilemmas – with solutions from the astonishing world of chemistry.

Sounds unbelievable? Test the science for yourself, with easy-to-follow experiments throughout!

What are you waiting for? Let’s become millionaires!

Written by bestselling and award-winning author Swapna Haddow, with brilliantly funny colour illustrations from award-winning illustrator Jess Bradley.

BOOK 1 OUT NOW: How to Save Your Granny From a Runaway Train (physics)

COMING SOON: How to Stop a T. rex From Eating Your Socks (biology)

Experiments in How to Make Diamonds From Your Pencils:

• Secret Messages • Exploding rocket • Chromatography detective • Instant ice cream Static electricity • Whole egg in a bottle • Salt crystals • pH indicator • Green pennies • Shiny pennies • Collapse a bottle • Chocolate crispy treats • Oobleck • ‘Eco Plastic’ • Slime

Details

How to Make Diamonds From Your Pencils
by Swapna Haddow and Jess Bradley

ISBN
9780008713362

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers

Binding
Paperback

Publication date
March 12, 2026

Dimensions
27.6cm x 21.3cm x 0.6cm

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