Children's Nonfiction Science & Technology
Biographie en images : Voici Frederick Banting
- Publisher
- Scholastic Canada Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2025
- Category
- Science & Technology, Discoveries, Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781039708020
- Publish Date
- Aug 2025
- List Price
- $19.99
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 6 to 10
- Grade: 1 to 5
Description
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Voici Frederick Banting : docteur, scientifique et gagnant d’un prix Nobel!
La remarquable découverte de l’insuline par le Dr Frederick Banting a changé et sauvé la vie de millions de personnes dans le monde... mais ce n’est qu’une partie de son histoire!
Quand il était enfant, Frederick Banting a perdu son amie Jennie, atteinte du diabète. Après son décès, Frederick a grandi avec la volonté de lutter contre cette terrible maladie. Il est devenu chirurgien et a soigné des soldats pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Après la guerre, il a été médecin de famille et a enseigné à l’université. Mais Frederick voulait toujours aider les personnes atteintes de diabète.
Un soir, il est frappé par une grande idée : une toute nouvelle façon de traiter la maladie. Frederick convainc un professeur de l’Université de Toronto de lui confier un laboratoire et un assistant, Charles Best. Ensemble, les deux scientifiques travaillent de longues heures et mettent finalement au point l’insuline. Aujourd’hui encore, il s’agit du seul traitement contre le diabète. L’insuline a été appelée « la plus grande invention du Canada » et a sauvé des millions de vies!
Meet Frederick Banting – doctor, scientist and Nobel Prize-winner!
Dr. Frederick Banting’s remarkable discovery of insulin has changed and saved the lives of millions around the world...but that’s only part of his story!
When Frederick Banting was young, his friend Jennie became sick. She had diabetes and soon passed away. Fred grew up determined to do something about this terrible disease. He became a surgeon, helping soldiers in World War I. After the war, he practiced family medicine and taught at a nearby university. But Fred still wanted to help people with diabetes.
One night he was struck by a big idea — a whole new way to treat the disease. Fred convinced a professor at the University of Toronto to give him a lab and an assistant: Charles Best. They worked long hours and finally developed insulin. To this day, insulin is still the only treatment for diabetes. It has saved the lives of millions of people around the world.
Original Title: Scholastic Canada Biography: Meet Frederick Banting
About the authors
Liz is one nosy author, which is why she loves writing non-fiction. She’s very curious about why people do what they do, and likes sharing with kids the amazing facts and secrets that she uncovers.As a kid in Thornhill, Ontario, the idea of being a writer never crossed Liz’s mind—she figured most authors were already dead and they definitely weren’t Canadian. Besides, it was science that interested Liz.But writing was already part of Liz’s life. After dinner on school nights, Liz and her two brothers would trudge up to their rooms, close their doors and start to do their homework—or so their parents thought. A few minutes later, a piece of paper would come sliding under Liz’s door. One of her brothers had drawn a picture, usually of some weird creature.Liz really couldn’t draw (still can’t!), so the only way she could respond was to write a short story, often about a mad scientist or space alien. She would slip the story under her brother’s door and—well, not a lot of homework got done.At university, Liz studied sciences—there was hardly any writing involved at all. But after university, she was hired as an editor at OWL magazine, where she could combine writing and her love of science. But it wasn’t long before Liz had a goal: to write a book. Her first one was about lions and since then she’s written more than fifty others.Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns (2008) is one of her favourite books because royalty has always fascinated Liz. She loved going behind the scenes with monarchs from Cleopatra to Dracula to find out just what they would do to hold onto power or protect their families.Bones Never Lie: How Forensics Helps Solve History’s Mysteries (2013) was the winner of numerous awards, including the Crime Writers of Canada 2014 Arthur Ellis Award in the Juvenile/YA category. Liz’s latest book with Annick Press, Galloping Through History: Incredible True Horse Stories (Spring 2015), combines, once again, her outstanding storytelling skills with her passion for history. This time her love of animals also shines through as she recounts the stories of six horses that changed the way humans live, travel, fight, work, and play.Liz lives in Toronto with her husband, Paul, and their cat Cosimo. While she writes, he is usually sprawled across her desk—often right on the book she needs for research!
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Mike Deas est auteur-illustrateur de bandes dessinées, telles que Tank and Fizz and The Case of the Tentacle Terror. Il signe aussi les illustrations de la série Graphic Guide Adventure. Sa passion pour l'illustration a été entretenue tout au long de son enfance à l'île Saltspring, en Colombie-Britannique où il habite encore aujourd'hui.
MIKE DEAS is an author/illustrator of graphic novels, most recently Tank and Fizz and the Case of the Tentacle Terror. He is the illustrator of the Graphic Guide Adventure series. His love for illustrative storytelling comes from an early love of reading and drawing while growing up on Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Visit him online at www.deasillustration.com.
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