The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry by Larry Gonick and Craig Criddle is a nonfiction book that uses visual images and cartoons to cover the basics and intricacies of chemistry. It is two hundred and fifty-six pages long and was published by Collins Reference on May 3, 2005. It covers topics such as chemical reactions, solutions, acid bases, and chemical thermodynamics in a unique way that makes chemistry fun and easy to learn. as well as understand. The book has no structure or coherent story. It simply moves from Chemistry Topic A to Chemistry Topic B, explaining the different components that make up the chemistry topic. To begin with, the authors, Larry Gonick and Craig Criddle, as I alluded to earlier, wrote this book to include: varied topics and subjects, all under the umbrella of chemistry. The twelve key topics covered are hidden ingredients (basically properties and elements), matter becoming electric and their relationship to electrons, atomic unity and structure, chemical reactions, heat of reaction, matter in a state (solid, liquid, gas), solutions, reaction rate and equilibrium, acid bases, chemical thermodynamics, electrochemistry, organic chemistry and use of logarithms. Overall, each topic is covered equally in depth and some topics build on each other while others do not. There is no specific goal of the author rather than to educate the reader. However, the consistently recurring topics that relate to each chapter are the history of chemistry and how chemical principles were discovered. These repetitive topics also show us the real-world applications of chemistry and the importance of chemistry in our lives. In general, the book trudges through topics......middle of the paper......first semester chemistry. However, this book revised me on many things we had learned in class. The book left me with the impression that chemistry can be both very interesting and enjoyable to learn. Most of the time, I thought of chemistry as just a boring science based on math and other weird things, but as I progressed through reading this book, I realized how much chemistry was really great. It made me realize that chemistry is not a boring science used by only a few, it is beyond science, it is a part of life that we see almost every day! I absolutely loved the book and felt all the joy that came with reading it as well as completing this project. I would recommend this book to anyone learning chemistry because everyone deserves to learn about chemistry the way this book teaches it with its whimsical and fun style..