The Big Questions: What is a Ship?

By Ethan Solace

What is a ship-and how did boats, oceans, and engineering change the world?

Hi, my name is Ethan Solace-an interdisciplinary psychologist and dad. Picture books are often the first place children meet the wider world, yet we rarely consider who writes them-or the lasting impression they leave. I created The Big Questions series to make big topics exciting, age-appropriate, and genuinely engaging, without ever talking down to children.

In The Big Questions: What is a Ship?, kids set sail through maritime history for children and the science of how ships work-from the earliest boats and rafts to today's cargo ships and cruise ships, and onward to the future.

Inside, you'll explore:

Ships and boats through time - from early rafts to mighty sailing ships

Viking longships and fearless voyages across rough seas

Explorers and ocean travel that connected the world

Pirates (fact vs legend) and life on the high seas (handled age-appropriately)

The rise of steamships and modern naval ships / warships

The world of container ships and global trade routes

Submarines for kids - diving beneath the waves into deep-sea mystery

The biggest, fastest, most surprising ships ever built

The future of transportation-what the "ships of tomorrow" might look like

Perfect for ages 5-12 (and a brilliant pick for classrooms, homeschooling, STEM learning, and bedtime reading). If your child loves transportation books, ocean facts, engineering, history, and how-things-work discoveries, this is the ship book they'll want to reread.

Grab your copy today-and let your child's curiosity sail beyond the horizon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F1Y76JS3
• ISBN13: 9798314580172
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 8.5"