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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  ForrestFamily | Sep 16, 2009 |  AtHomeScience | Aug 8, 2009 | We have this book at home. It's a wonderful way to see complicated concepts and see how they work - from levels to lasers. McCaulay's website is great too:) His many awards include the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, and the Washington Post–Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. Calleen1 | Jul 27, 2009 | The title says it-- this is a cool book about how things (mostly everyday items like seat belts but also more advanced things like nuclear energy) work. Macauley is an excellent illustrator and the woolly mammoth drawings are cute. I thought that some of the more difficult concepts were glossed over a little, which may be appropriate in a book aimed at kids. In general, I liked it. (  )1  lorin77 | Aug 9, 2008 | I'm keeping it on hand just in case I'm ever trapped in a post apocalyptic sci fi movie and need to reconstruct modern technology from scratch. Until then, I'll just enjoy Macaulay's ability to work his drawings of wooly mammoths into every conceivable illustration. (  ) Harmless_Dilettante | Apr 21, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0395428572, Hardcover)David Macaulay has made it his business to demystify science and technology for children (and certainly one or two surreptitious adults) with his worldwide bestseller, The New Way Things Work. Packed with information on the inner workings of everything from the World Wide Web to windmills, the remarkable and humorous book guides readers through the fundamental principles of machines. And now Macaulay and his trusty mammoth sidekick are back, ready to make science even more fun and comprehensible. The Way Things Work Kit is a hands-on, fully interactive kit, equipped with everything needed to perform over 50 activities, including the construction of 12 working models. A handy cardboard carrying case opens to reveal a guidebook, a CD-ROM with instructions on how to build your own pinball games, activity cards, and more than 100 basic components that fit together to make models from a balloon-powered car to a robot arm to a fairground ride. Children will be absorbed for hours as they learn about levers and hydraulics, winches and friction, inertia and pneumatics. Future engineers--not to mention just regular humans--couldn't have a better introduction to the way things work. (Ages 8 and older) --Emilie Coulter(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Our little person loves this book, and will dip into it just for the sake of it, rather than searching for the answer to a particular question. (