A non-fiction graphic novel (find it in the 500s)...hmm, very interesting! Hidden Systems is SO interesting, I think I finished it in one long sitting. Author and illustrator Nott explains in this book how the Internet really works (hint; it doesn't really sit in a cloud...), as well as how water systems work (so that we get water when we turn on the faucet) and how electricity works (and even what it is, exactly). He asks and then answers so many interesting questions that we all have about these three systems, and then adds amazing artwork to help us understand it! I don't know if I've seen another book like this one exactly, and I learned so much from it - and I'm no youngster, in dog years!
Nott ends each section with some solid practical advice and things for you to think about, mostly around the idea of "how do we take care of these systems that we all rely so heavily on (and usually take for granted), so that they continue to serve us in the future?" I also like that he points out along the way that for every action there is a reaction, even within these systems, and that as some people benefit from any one of these systems working as they should, often someone else is "paying" for it, in different ways. Ways that are inherently unequal, and usually unfair.
I love this book, and have already shared it with some other readers, even before I had finished it! It's not a chapter book, which is what I read most of the time, but reads as well as any chapter book I have read. I love this, I recommend it to you, and guarantee that you, too, will be sharing it with other readers you know and love. 5 paws!
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