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
Watch the trailer.
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.
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English
Written by Nina Janjetović Kajkut
ISBN 978-3-9505841-4-1
Some of the places where to find it
Printed bookEnglish edition
Barnes & NobleUnited States
Bookshop.orgUnited States
AmazonUnited StatesAmazonSpainAmazonIndia
YES24South Korea
SaxoDenmark
Najlacnejšie knihySlovakia
AbeBooksUnited States
eBayUnited StatesAmazonItaly
Exclusive BooksSouth Africa
WalmartUnited States
ThriftBooksUnited States
BooktopiaAustralia
Kyobo Book CentreSouth Korea
bolNetherlands
BokusSweden
AdlibrisSweden
DonnerNetherlands
Lowell BooksUnited Kingdom
IBSItalyAmazonNetherlands
Ryefield BooksUnited Kingdom
Books.com.twTaiwan
Browns BooksUnited KingdomAmazonSaudi Arabia
Atlantic BooksIndia
Dick SmithAustralia
HiveUnited KingdomAmazonUnited Kingdom
LibristoGreeceLibristoCroatiaLibristoSpain
EnbookCzech RepublicEnbookHungaryAmazonUnited Arab EmiratesMore places are being added all the time, so check your own stores and retailers regularly. Each retailer sets its own price, and depending on where you are buying from, it may include import tax and a delivery fee.
AudiobookEnglish edition
More places are being added all the time, so check your own stores and retailers regularly.
Read and play
A printed book, with a digital world behind its last page.
Battery Town is a book first: real pages to turn, pictures to linger over, a story shared with a parent or a teacher. A QR code in the back opens a free companion app that carries the same story further, with no shop and no account behind it.
We see the two as partners, not rivals. Reading builds the literacy every other subject rests on, and the app lets children meet new technology in a setting adults can trust. The book stays at the centre; the screen extends it rather than replacing it.
Read
A printed story to hold, turn and return to, read together or alone.
Play
Games and experiments in the free app, revisiting what the book explained.
Listen
The story narrated aloud, for children not yet reading on their own.
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.
“I felt a strong responsibility to ensure the battery-related content remained technically accurate while still being accessible to young readers. I was grateful that Nina Janjetović was open to several rounds of review.”
Meriem Akin
Platform Engineering Project Lead, Clarios EMEA
“Energy is the most present thing in a child's day and the least explained. Adults have a word for it: we say electricity, and we move on. Children don't move on. They ask where it came from. They ask where it went. They ask whether it's tired, whether it's hiding, whether it will come back.”
Nina Janjetović Kajkut
Founder of The Curious Crew and author
Bring the town home.
Hardcover
The Curious Crew Explores the Battery Town
Ages 5–12
- Written by
- Nina Janjetović Kajkut
- Illustrated by
- Andrijana Rico
- Engineered by
- Meriem Akin
- Languages
- English, German, Spanish, French, Turkish, Czech
- ISBN
- English 978-3-9505841-4-1German 978-3-9505841-9-6Spanish 978-3-9505841-5-8French 978-3-9505841-1-0Turkish 978-3-9505841-6-5Czech 978-3-9505841-7-2
- 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.