An educational collaboration
The Curious Crew and Clarios built this book together, turning real battery engineering into a story children want to read twice.
There is a town where energy goes to work. Very few people have seen it.
Real engineering, hidden inside a story · Published in six languages · Available in bookstores globally
Turn it. The town is on the outside.
This is the battery the story happens inside, the real one, modelled part for part. Drag it around, then open one of the four glowing points.
Four things hidden in the town
Tap a glowing point on the battery, or a line above, to open the page it comes from.
Step inside the town.
Preview only, not the complete book. These are selected sample pages; pages are missing and the sequence is incomplete. They are shown for information only. All text and illustrations are © The Curious Crew and remain copyright protected. Downloading, printing, copying, redistributing or reusing them in any form is not permitted.
The same town, in six languages.
Every translation done by a person who knows a classroom in that country, never run through a machine.
Click a flag for the title in that language
English
Written by Nina Janjetović
The story does not stop at the last page.
After the last page
Scan the code in the back, and the town keeps going.
Games, experiments and a voice reading the story aloud: the same book, carried on in a phone or a tablet. No shop, no account. Press play and hear how it sounds.
Real engineering
Checked by an engineer. Then read again by a lawyer.
One of them builds batteries for a living. The other spent a career weighing words for a living. The town is invented; nothing it teaches is.
Bring the town home.
Hardcover
The Curious Crew Explores the Battery Town
Ages 0–12
- Written by
- Nina Janjetović
- Illustrated by
- Andrijana Rico
- Engineered by
- Meriem Akin
- Languages
- English, German, Spanish, French, Turkish, Czech
- ISBN
- 978-3-9505841-4-1
- Included
- The free app, in every copy. The QR code is printed in the back.
Sold through bookstores globally. Ordering 100 copies or more for a school, a library or a reading programme? Write to team@curious-crew.com.
Know the day it lands
We'll write when Battery Town reaches the shelves, and now and then when new school materials or app features arrive.