Horrible Science: House of Horrors Award-winning by Nick Arnold (author) and Tony De Saulles (illustrator)

Author/Illustrator

Nick Arnold

When he is not writing, Nick spends his time travelling around the UK, giving talks to children in bookshops, schools and libraries. He has recently moved to Devon, England. Horrible Science author Nick Arnold has been writing books and stories since he was a lad. Even in those days his favourite subjects for stories were horrible goings-on – the more gruesome the better. So you see, he hasn’t changed a bit.

Nick’s first published books appeared several years ago when he was working at the University of North London on a project teaching children about nature. This led on to magazine articles. And one day Nick had a brilliant idea, if he could write articles he could write books… Since then Nick has lost count of the number of books he’s written.

He teamed up with Scholastic and the best-selling/award-winning series, Horrible Science was created. There’s currently over twenty titles on sale – including Ugly Bugs, Blood, Bones and Body Bits, Chemical Chaos, Nasty Nature and Disgusting Digestion to name but a few. Nick’s most recent books are Explosive Experiments, Killer Energy and The Body Owner’s Handbook.

Ugly Bugs and Blood Bones & Body Bits won the prestigious Rhône-Poulenc Junior Science Books Prize in 1997. Nick’s also had the honour of being a judge for the Rhône-Poulenc Prize for Science. Sales across the series now stand at over an amazing one and half million books!

Aside from Horrible Science Nick has written Awesome Archeology for The Knowledge, Speedy Reads: The Moon Landing. He soon have a new series to his name called Wild Lives, about the first year in animals life, first up Nick will be looking at lions and sharks!

When he’s not writing books, Nick is constantly taking his one-person show to bookshops, libraries, festivals and schools. The show is everything you would expect from a Horrible Science book, packed with revolting experiments and gory descriptions.

Tony De Saulles

Internet Vet is the first series he has written and illustrated. His own family are animal mad, and Internet Vet gives him more than a few ideas for the books, as well as plenty of reference for his research.

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1. Sushi123
   on 13 July 2016

   I am defiently going to get this on Amazon SOO last time I looked only 1 left and it sounds gruesomely great

2. threddie
   on 24 February 2015

   It is the best book I have ever read! It has colour and facts about whats living in your house!

   5 out of 5

3. AngelofDeath
   on 9 March 2014

   Horribly funny

4. Athena14
   on 5 March 2014

   Funny and rather disgusting!

5. Spidergirl
   on 5 March 2014

   This book makes u think what is in your house tat we can’t see Ewwww I love these horrible history books can’t get enough if them

   5 out of 5

6. birdie90
   on 4 March 2014

   The pictures were absolutly hideous!

7. heyay234
   on 3 March 2014

   This book is so cool i mean I whizzed through some of the pages and it was full of horrible stuff that you don’t even want to think about. It is about snot balls, dust mites and lots of other horrifying stuff. I say you give it a go and try to read this book!....