Newton’s Paws of Motion

This cat isn’t mak­ing a mess. He’s test­ing the laws of physics.

New­ton has made an impor­tant sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­ery: three laws explain­ing how things move. Of course, a good sci­en­tist must test those laws. Repeatedly.

For New­ton’s first exper­i­ment, there’s his break­fast bowl. It sits per­fect­ly still until one tiny tap sends it down, down, down. CRASH! The floor stops it. First law confirmed.

Next comes a toy car. Tap it and it rolls. SWAT it and—ZOOM!—it rock­ets across the room. Sec­ond law confirmed.

Then New­ton tack­les his trick­i­est exper­i­ment yet. Push down, go up. Push hard­er, go high­er. Third law confirmed!

There’s just one thing New­ton can’t quite under­stand: Why don’t the humans seem more impressed?

In New­ton’s Paws of Motion, award-win­ning non­fic­tion author Lau­rie Ann Thomp­son and illus­tra­tor Karen Obuhanych trans­form the every­day chaos of liv­ing with a cat into a fun­ny, acces­si­ble intro­duc­tion to physics. New­ton nar­rates every exper­i­ment with total sci­en­tif­ic con­fi­dence, while the illus­tra­tions reveal the increas­ing­ly hilar­i­ous con­se­quences hap­pen­ing around him.

The fun con­tin­ues in the back matter

with an intro­duc­tion to Sir Isaac New­ton, clear expla­na­tions of his three laws of motion, and an author’s note about Thor, the real cat whose dai­ly knock­ing, swat­ting, and jump­ing inspired the story.

Per­fect for ages 4 and up, ele­men­tary STEM lessons, force-and-motion units, class­room and fam­i­ly read-alouds, cat-obsessed kids, and young sci­en­tists who like their physics with a side of feline chaos.

Exper­i­ments com­plete. Laws con­firmed. House destroyed. ISN’T SCIENCE FUN?