The Adventures of Lillicorn STEM Skills Book | Review & Giveaway
The Adventures of Lillicorn STEM Skills Book | Review & Giveaway
The Adventures of Lillicorn is a new innovative book series that’s just launched. It’s designed to promote STEM skills in young children — girls in particular, as research shows that girls are often not encouraged in these areas.
Though these skills will become even more important in the future, for the children growing up now, research shows that UK is one of the worst regions in Europe at encouraging women in to STEM roles.
QuestFriendz founders Lisa Moss and Dr Thomas Bernard have spent many years in technology and education and are bringing that expertise to this book project while also drawing on their experience as parents of twin girls.
“The QuestFriendz aim is to help increase the number of children who choose STEM related education and careers, with a mission to reduce the STEM skills shortage, improve female representation and ethnic diversity in the STEM workforce.”
Early intervention is key, and encouragement from parents and teachers makes a huge difference. We have the first book in the series, The Adventures of Lillicorn in WooWoo Land, and my 6-year-old daughter loves it! So do I — I think it’s a brilliant idea!
The Adventures of Lillicorn in WooWoo Land will spark young children’s imagination and dreams, building their confidence and inspiring them to learn STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in fun and creative new ways.
The books features Lilli who is a fearless girl who loves science, experiments and inventions. When she goes to sleep at night, she dreams and transforms into Lillicorn who is a superhero. She travels to other lands and has to figure out creative solutions to lots of different quests.
Lillicorn’s quests include structured problem solving, pattern recognition, sequencing, spatial perception, and coding. There are fun rewards for young readers when they complete the quests.
The story books is rhyming and takes you through 10 different STEM quests to solve. When you do, you earn collectable charm tokens that come in the book. You also use these tokens and other tokens to solve the quests. They are stored in the back of the book which is very neat and convenient.
The book is made from high quality, durable board book with lay flat binding and gloss finishing which is great as it will last a long time. I’ve got two younger daughters too who I’m sure will want to play with this book in the future too. They actually already play with the charms and tokens from the book!
It’s an exciting way for children to learn fundamental STEM skills at an early age, as well as develop 21st century learning skills (the 4Cs – critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication).
Being a parent of three girls myself, I find very important that my girls are encouraged in STEM subjects by their teachers too (they already are at home!). They love STEM activities and being girls should not make a difference.
The STEM activities/interactive quests in this book cover lots of different areas — problem-solving including the ability to break a larger problem into smaller tasks to achieve a goal, pattern recognition and matching, sequencing, optimization, spatial perception, coding skills etc., and stimulate interactive play as they build self-confidence as the reader learns that they are very able to tackle STEM related challenges.
My daughter loved the book from the start and sat down to read it and then tackled all 10 challenges in one go. Definitely a success and I’m sure she’ll play with the book lots more before handing it down to her two younger sisters.
I look forward to see what the future books for the series will be like! We’d definitely love to see more.
Giveaway: Win a copy of The Adventures of Lillicorn in WooWoo Land
For a chance to win a copy of The Adventures of Lillicorn in WooWoo Land, enter through the Rafflecopter below. There will be 1 winner. UK entrants over the age of 18 years only. The giveaway will end on the 29th of July 2020.
Sample of this book was provided for this review.
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For us it’s things like cause and effect- pouring, mixing, building, knocking down etc.
I try to make it part of everyday life, talking about things as we see them, we count different coloured cars, explore how things work (the latest was the ballcock in the toilet!) and generally try to make it not seem like school work!
This book looks amazing! My 6-year-old daughter would absolutely love it! We need to refresh/update our book collection, she’s become so bored with her current collection since lockdown! xxx
Keep it practical – use everyday life – easier for all to learn – practice makes perfect
I have 2 year old girl and this book looks amazing!!
my son like to try out kitchen experiments, anything to get messy!
getting them involved in everyday STEM activities like cooking, buying food, building with legos, fun experiments, go exploring and visit museums that encourage your child to learn and grow.
By engaging them in everyday STEM activities like cooking, buying food or building with Lego.
We do experimemts such as mentos in coke and bicarb volcanos. We also look at how things work buy taking them apart. So practical things to help them think and explore.
We make it fun and do games and experiments!
I let the kids experiment a lot with things in the household – water, magnets etc.
We also deliberately buy STEM toys to play with.
We do lots of practical experiments – it can get messy, but it’s fun
We invest in activities and toys – both bought and made at home – that support STEM learning.
This looks lovely!
Great prize
by making it practical, fun experiments and lots of ammlearning from experience
Wish it had been around when I was young
Make it fun and practical
Opportunities :- During activities such as baking, etc. Books, experiments, etc :- As the children are naturally curious, keen to learn, enjoy science, etc.
lots of home experiments!
How do you encourage your kids to explore STEM subjects? . . . fun and laughter are the key in our house
We try to include these things in whatever we are doing such as measuring and weighing ingredients for a cake and talking about how the heat in the oven will change our cake mixture!
By just getting stuck in and have loads of fun doing it
I don’t really, but I should! They get given a lot of STEM game/sets from family for presents!
We play games like Yahtzee and write little reports on the books we read on goodreads so the kids understand the importance of learning and how it can be fun xx
My little girl loves baking with me and she is brilliant at measuring out the ingredients now. I make a point of asking her what time it is so she has to work it out. It’s about making things fun and not like work x
Trying experiments, reading books and making it lots of fun
by making the learning fun.
I encourage my daughters to watch STEM tutorials on Facebook/YouTube/BBC BITESIZE
We try to make the lessons as fun as possible while making sure they are still learning
I love to set challenges for my girls to design something on paper and then make it in real life by using items from the recycling box!
My kids love to wear their goggles and do experiments – they think they are real scientists lol!
Luckily there is a natural interest there, because it’s my weakest area.
We try and do experiments at home, when we can
Ellie loves cooking and Matthew loves building using Lego
We watch a lot of STEM tutorials on the iPad which generates a lot of interest.
Love doing garden experiments with flowers with our goggles on
Make it fun
We love to do science experiments with our younger children with kitchen items like baking soda and lego to help with Stem learning. My oldest child is doing a chemistry degree so my younger children are always wanting to borrow his goggles and lab coat to be mini scientists too :-)
Lots of hands on experiments and learning.
We love to try new things and are always looking out for new experiments or things to learn.
I dont but I feel like I should I just don’t know where to start
I love baking and gardening with my grandchildren
By making it fun and letting them take the lead, they love experimenting.
We as well as other has obviously done a lot of home schooling so I have been looking at the home learning sites and trying things out but only things that the kids are really interested in as then it makes learning fun for them.
Would love to win fr my daughter sheriah who is 8 on the 3rd of August
Normally get them involved in the kitchen, baking cooking etc
We try to make things interesting and fun. It’s also good to try and involve everyday things as I think it means more
By making it fun and interesting and getting them involved always helps
By building with Lego and baking.