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ISBN-13: 978-1426325557
Age Range: 7 - 10 years
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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My thoughts: This is a super book for kids. The sense of humor the author brings makes the reading fun while sharing educationally pertinent information about how specific things work in today's world. Bits of scientific history are thrown in making the journey toward achievement to market an item understandable.
The illustrations just pop out at the reader grabbing attention and pointing to exciting information. There is a plethora of things to explore the inner workings. It should be understood, though, that this is a children's book and the complexities of how things work is not the actual goal. It is general, and understandable to ages 7 to 10, amount of knowledge. It will, however, be good reading for older kids and adults as well.
A great addition to home, school, and public libraries and one not to be missed. We expect no less from a National Geographic Kids publication!
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Yes, she often wants to know how things work. Sometimes we take things apart to see.
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I like the funny Animal Hairdo sections as well as the Sound Off quiz poll on their site.
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Many times as a child did I want to disassemble something just to see how it worked, but dare not so as not to incur parental wrath. LOL
ReplyDeleteYes, we always want to know how things work and take things apart.
ReplyDeleteNGeo Web site: (1) There are wacky animal hairdos, and (2) jokes!
We love Mammals and Birds!
ReplyDeleteWe are always checking items out and we watch How It Works on TV. We just wonder what makes it tick.
ReplyDeleteWe love the Interactive Map to check out places around the world. We also like all the facts on animals and great photos.
ReplyDeleteI'm constantly finding things destroyed around the house because someone was curious about how it works. Definitely a mixed blessing.
ReplyDeleteWe often wonder how things work, mostly technology related things.
ReplyDeleteWe find anything travel related interesting and also Bizarre facts.
ReplyDeleteSo fun to find out how things work.
ReplyDeleteMy son was really interested in my scanner when I was trying to get it to work again. We took it apart and put it back together. It still didn't work but we had all the pieces and put everything back where it came from.
ReplyDeleteMy children love taking apart things to see how they work, but I wasn't as interested in that as a kid.
ReplyDeleteMy granddaughters would like the somethings fishy and snakes and more sections
ReplyDeleteWe want to get the Real or Fake book and the Weird but True books.
ReplyDeleteMy grandson had this game/puzzle type tube with several tiny objects hid in what looked like pieces of shredded cardboard (or something). The object was to find all the objects. He spent over an hour trying to find the objects. Finally, he just took the lid off (pryed) dumped the material like stuff out and found all the rest of the objects.
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