Books

Jack Guichard has written more than a hundred books: popular science for children and adults, brain games and puzzles, science teaching, and reflections on the place of science in society. Seventy editions have been published in other languages. Most of his books are written in French; their titles are given here in the original, with a short description.

In English

• There’s Science in… — six books for young readers, published in the United States by Kane Miller (EDC Publishing), 2024. The English edition of “La science est dans…”.
• “La science est dans…” — the series has also been published in German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Arabic and Chinese.

Recent books

• “50 expériences faciles et surprenantes”, Nathan, volume 1 (2024) and volume 2 (2025) — fifty easy and surprising experiments for children.
• “C’est pas sorcier : l’histoire du numérique”, Deux Coqs d’or, 2024 — the story of digital technology, in the series of the famous French science TV programme; Roberval Prize finalist 2025.
• “Histoire des sciences”, in the same “C’est pas sorcier” series, Deux Coqs d’or — the history of science.
• “Énigmes pour grands génies”, Larousse, 2023 — puzzles for great minds.
• “Défiez votre cerveau et votre mémoire”, Larousse, 2023 — challenge your brain and your memory.
• “La science est dans…”, Nathan, 2019–2022, with Cécile Jugla — twelve picture books showing the science hidden in everyday things: the egg, the lemon, paper, water, the balloon, sugar, glass, the potato, salt, the paper clip, milk and sand. Roberval Prize 2021.
• “Énigmes coriaces pour esprits sagaces”, Larousse, 2020 — tough puzzles for sharp minds.
• “Défier votre cerveau” and “300 inventions auxquelles vous avez échappé… ou pas”, Larousse, 2017 — brain games, and three hundred astonishing inventions.
• “Je fais des sciences”, Nathan — first science experiments for 4- to 8-year-olds, translated into five languages.
• “Tout savoir sur l’abeille”, Le Pommier, 2014 — everything about the honeybee.
• The series “50 expériences pour épater vos amis”, Le Pommier, 2011–2015 — experiments to amaze your friends, at the table, in the garden, at the beach or at Christmas — with Chinese, Russian, Polish and German editions.

Science and society

• “La science ? Un plaisir !”, Ovadia, 2010.
• “Médiatique des sciences”, Presses universitaires de France, 2000.

Science teaching

Textbooks and teaching resources for primary schools with Hachette Éducation (“Citadelle”, “Ateliers sciences”, “Dossiers Hachette” and more), “Observer pour comprendre les sciences” (Hachette, 1998), “Des idées pour apprendre” (with A. Giordan and F. Guichard, Delagrave, 2003), and a contribution to “La révolution de la muséologie des sciences”, edited by Bernard Schiele and Emlyn Koster.

The heritage of the Vendée

“Le littoral talmondais, une longue et passionnante histoire” (2017), “Le Talmondais, plus de 5000 ans d’histoire” (2018) and “Talmont, guide du visiteur” (2021), published by the Amis du château et du patrimoine talmondais.

The complete list of French publications, with dates (in French) →