About
About The STEM Bookshelf
A science and art bookstore for families, written for the grown-ups who choose the books.
Who picks the books
Every book on our shelves was placed there by a person. Nothing here is generated or ranked by an algorithm. Each book page says who picked it.
Our store links
Our links to Bookshop.org and Amazon are plain links: we don’t earn anything when you buy through them.
We don’t show prices, because they change often. Check them on each store.
Privacy
- No accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no ads and no tracking pixels.
- The site loads nothing from anyone else: fonts, covers and photos come from our own site.
- Our pile, the theme and the shelf view are saved only in your browser. They are never sent to us.
- Search runs in your browser. What you type stays on your device.
- Our hosting doesn’t keep logs of visitors’ addresses.
- The site is written for parents and caregivers. We don’t collect information about your kids.
Credits
- Book covers from Open Library, unless a publisher supplied them. Book details are checked against Open Library too.
- Toy photos are our own, unless credited below.
- Fonts: Unbounded, Atkinson Hyperlegible and JetBrains Mono, under the SIL Open Font License.