Small in science, big on facts, the Fun Kids Science Midweekly, is here.

My name's Dan.

Thank you so much for popping along.

This week, Winnie asks how we make books.

TIG wants to know what's the world's largest volcano.

Luke is on the lookout for the planet's deadliest snake.

Misha questions how braces work and Alex asks the all-important question, why do humans go to the

toilet every day? How do you make books? So how do you make books? Hmm, well Winnie, it's a mixture of creativity, design and

making. This is a science show, right? So we'll talk about the making. You can do the creative bit

yourself. So let's say you have an idea, right? You write a story about that idea. You want to get

it out there onto bookshop so people

can read it. So you send your idea off to a publisher. That's a company that will say yes. Hopefully

they'll say, yes, I want that book. They'll give you a little bit of cash and then they'll help

you get the story in tip top shape. They will edit it with you and then it's ready to be physically made and that's what the

publisher does. First, you need the paper. Mostly paper is made from trees. It can be made from loads

more stuff like cotton or bamboo. Basically you take a plant, you bash it around, it releases the fibres.

That's what makes up the tree. And then you mix those fibers with water to get a substance called pulp. Then you spread that pulp out on a sheet of wire. You leave it so the fibers knit. They merge together. Then you dry it out and it becomes paper. Then that paper goes to a printing press where large sheets of paper are fed into a printer where your book

is printed onto it. Pages of the book are printed onto both sides because you flip pages,

don't know, they have writing on both sides of it, so that needs to be done when it's printing.

Then they're folded in half, so you make smaller pages of the book. Those pages are called

signatures. Signatures are called signatures.

Signatures are then gathered in order.

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