There’s nothing like curling up with a good book and a cup of hot cocoa on a cold winter day, and Larry Scheckel’s science Q&A book I Always Wondered About That is a book that will keep you entertained for hours. With answers to questions like “Is time travel possible?” and “Why is water wet?” this book has something for everyone. Certainly, it is the perfect book to chase away winter boredom. Lucky for you, Swenson Book Development LLC is offering this book as a giveaway.
You can enter the contest by leaving a comment with your answer to one of the questions from the book listed below. The random drawing will be held on Saturday, February 17, and the winner will receive Larry Scheckel’s book in the mail.
Larry Scheckel grew up in southwestern Wisconsin on a family farm with eight siblings. He started his schooling in a one room country school and eventually went on to have a successful teaching career in physics and aerospace science for over 
thirty eight years in Tomah, Wisconsin. In addition to his teaching, he has been a robotics mentor, given orientation flights to students, been a Science Olympiad coach, and organized field trip and star gazing sessions. He often speaks at conventions for both teachers and students alike. In addition to I Always Wondered About That, Larry has written several articles for The Science Teacher and Physics Teacher magazines. On his website, Larry says that in his free time, he likes to “bicycle in the Driftless area of south central Wisconsin, jog on the back roads, fly a Cessna 150 over the verdant countryside, work crossword puzzles, read newspapers, play guitar, read history books and trade magazines, and fly radio controlled planes.”
Keep an eye out for more books like I Always Wondered About That, as Larry has signed a two-book deal for more in this series.
You can also come to see Larry at UntitledTown Book and Author Festival in downtown Green Bay this spring, taking place April 19-22, 2018.
Don’t forget to leave a comment below in order to register to win a copy of Larry Scheckel’s book I Always Wondered About That. Tell us your answer to one of the following questions from the book:
Is time travel possible?
Is Bigfoot real?
What would happen if you put a DNA sample from a human into another creature?
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Time travel is possible. Neddy Merrill did it in John Cheever’s “The Swimmer.” And I knew a Dutchman with olive skin and one single very long eyelash who had memories of living in a Chinese dynasty, hundreds of years before his birth.
And then there’s Elon Musk, who I believe will scientifically prove time travel.
Thank you for writing this book.
Time travel is absolutely possible. Dreaming is a small sample of what it feels like to return a previous life or visit an earlier time. Moving back and forth between worlds and/or times has been written about by Aristotle and, later, Einstein. I believe “lucid dreaming” is just a sample of the adventures we could have if we were willing to allow for our many possibilities. I have recently spent a great deal of sleeping and waking time walking with Alexander the Great and I have to say it stimulates the writing genes! I look forward to this book.
Congratulations, Therese. You’re our lucky winner!
Sorry, but Big Foot is not real. No more real than Loch Nessie! If Big Foot were real, we would have captured him by now.
I’m a “I have to see it to believe it.” If I ever see Big Foot or travel in time, I’ll be a believer.
I look forward to reading this book. It looks interesting.