Big “C” the Cowboy Carbon Atom

About the Book

Join Big C, the Cowboy Carbon Atom, as he shows children the wonderful world he is a part of. He will show all the material things that he can turn into. Big C will also explain the cycle of carbon in nature, which allows animals and plants to live on earth, and how important this balance is. Children are the future, and sometimes they take nature for granted, so Big C will show them that without Big C in the world, life would not exist. Big C will also show how carbon is turned into things we eat and turned into material used to run our cars and build our houses. This is the second book in a series describing science subjects to children. The first book was Edgar the Lonely Electron.

About the Author

Benedict “Benny” Maresca Benedict lives with his wife, Amie, in South Carolina. He grew up on Long Island, New York, and went to La Salle Military Academy. He was an assistant to the chemistry teacher, which was when his love of chemistry started. Benedict is an amateur astronomer, and he plays classical guitar and still plays in the laboratory every day. He also enjoys art and spends time drawing and painting. He drew all the illustrations in his books. He went to school at the Citadel for a bachelor of science in chemistry and followed these studies with graduate work, specializing in molecular and cellular biology and organometallic chemistry. He has been in the chemical and biological industry for over thirty years, and he is now technical director for a company he and his wife, Amie, started called Martech Research LLC, located in Bishopville, South Carolina. His goal in this series of books is to introduce certain ideas and scientific concepts to children at an early age and spur questions that can turn into constructive conversations, teaching the parents at the same time. Many of the concepts are taken for granted and are given scientific explanations.