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Both classic and forward-looking, perfect for browsing and research, this exhaustive guide to the realm of number-based thinking and fact-gathering could not be any clearer, any more welcome, and any more more.
As a ready source for reference, topic review, or for independent reading, this comprehensive title is visually enchanting and accessible. The obvious audience is elementary and middle grade readers, but there is much here to delight high schoolers and adults.
This book is a necessary addition to any collection serving middle grade readers and is perfect for collections in need of STEAM texts; a must-buy for any and all collections.
A delightful choice for browsing and reference.—Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
New ed., 1988. [=With]Last revised in 1998 as The New Way Things Work, this new edition of Macaulay's 1988 classic The Way Things Work brings us into the smartphone era. While the chapter on "the digital domain" receives the most new material, there is new information in many chapters (e.g., the jump jet replaced by the quadcopter); color has been added and refreshed throughout.
Gr 2–4—Macaulay did groundbreaking work beginning in the 1970s, bringing information to older children with such innovative works as Cathedral (Houghton Mifflin, 1973) and "The Way Things Work" series (Houghton Harcourt)...
Gr 3–8—Macaulay's Cathedral (1973) and Castle (1977, both Houghton) were landmark titles for children, appealing to both those interested in history and architecture, as well as to some who found the pictures fascinating in and of themselves...