There's Adventure in Electronics by Julian May

I saw this book cover on Face:

A little searching found these instances on Archive:

https://archive.org/details/theresadventurei0000juli

https://archive.org/details/adventures_in_electronics

An interesting approach to a kids book.  Rather than the straightforward approach of Alfred P. Morgan, the author of There's Adventure in Electronics, Julian May, has used a fictional story to knit together the concepts and projects of electronics.  Similar to what John T. Frye did with his: Mac's Service Shop column in several magazines and of course with Carl and Jerry in Popular Electronics.

The author and/or Popular Mechanics did a whole series of these There's Adventure in books on various technical subjects.

I look forward to reading this book - after all my favorite Alfred P. Morgan book was Adventures in Electrochemistry:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/11/alfred-p-morgan-had-rivals.html

Also, the forward to the book is by Lee de Forest, the old rascal of electronics and radio:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2024/11/lee-de-forest.html 

 

Update: March 16, 2025:  it was a good read.  Probably the most truthful thing was that the next door neighbor kid who was a ham was also peculiar :)  Only a couple of projects were mentioned, a crystal set and a Knight-kit regen.  Overall I'd say that the Alfred P. Morgan books are better but this one was fine.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm