How the World Works: A Hands-On Guide to Our Amazing Planet (Explore the Earth)

ISBN: 0763648019

Condition: New

From School Library JournalGrade 3-5-Limiting its purview to the physical world (alas), this pop-up survey devotes pages or spreads to Earth's history and structure, the origins of life, plate tectonics, the water cycle, weather, ocean currents, the carbon cycle, greenhouse effect, plants, and food chains. In snippets of text tucked into every available nook, Dorion provides commentary ranging from basic information on seasons and other cycles to abbreviated catalogs of cloud types and kinds of boundaries between tectonic plates. Mansfield's special effects are really the strong suit here. In contrast to small, if occasionally lively, painted illustrations and a low-key overall color scheme, the sturdy moving parts offer a stimulating array of movements, from an inset flip booklet showing the continents in motion on one spread and an unusually tall pop-up mountain range rearing up on the next to an array of large pull-out tabs and turn wheels. Far too broadly focused to have much research value, this is nonetheless a worthwhile purchase for its unusual potential in displays and demonstrations.-John Peters, New York Public LibraryCopyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Product DescriptionYou can make science fun for your adventurous kid with How the World Works. No droning text here - more like pop-ups, flaps to lift, tabs to pull, wheels to turn... your kid'll hardly know they're reading and learning.Make your family outdoor shenanigans even more fun with Ruckus Ready toys and outside games from Play Outdoors. Made for kids of all ages....About the AuthorChristiane Dorion is a writer and educational consultant who has taught about sustainable development for over twenty years. She lives with her husband and two sons in Surrey, England.Beverley Youngs paintings have been exhibited in galleries throughout England. She lives in Cornwall, England.