Young soap scientists may be blown away by SOAP SCIENCE by J. L. Bell (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, $9.95). The book is packed with experiments that teach kids the hows and whys of bubble building. They will learn to make spiral bubbles, use up leftover pieces of soap and discover why there always is a ring around the tub after a bubble bath.

For fans of big, bouncing bubbles, there is no better resource than THE UNBELIEVABLE BUBBLE BOOK by John Cassidy (Klutz Press, $12.95). Its pages are filled with tips for creating the biggest bubbles ever, and it comes packaged with the Bubble Thing, a wand created by Guinness world-record breaker David Stein. In June of 1988, he blew a 50-foot-long bubble in New York.