Idan Ben Barak’s Do Not Lick This Book! can be found in most homes around Australia. Idan likes writing about things in the world – and ourselves – that we normally don’t pay attention to. Come and find out about what your brain can and cannot do; how many senses you really have (hint: more than five); what your skin looks like from up close and what lives there, and other weird things that happen to be true.


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Idan Ben Barak

Idan Ben Barak writes science books, usually for children; they’ve been translated into over twenty languages and won a few awards. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and their two boys. Sometimes, after they go to bed, he plays his guitar a bit. He has degrees in microbiology and in the history and philosophy…