Gabrielle`s March R and EBY: GABRIELLE M. BLACK

Why the Author wrote the book!

All in a spiral-bound book so the pages lie completely flat. It is not as comprehensive or as thorough as an encyclopedia but it is much more interesting to read. The writing is lively, clear, and often very visual. The author encourages young readers to nurture their own inventive spirits and acknowledges a ten-year-old girl who is the youngest female ever to receive a U.S. patent. For families, How Things Work will appeal to a wide age range, with the youngest children pushing and pulling all the moving parts. 

A Summary of what you`ll find in the book!

This is the book for any child (or grown-up) who has ever asked, “How does it do that?” Race cars, MP3s, cell phones, traffic signals, roller coasters and bridges, It’s all here with

1. full-color photographs

2. screens that pull out, push in, and twirl;

3. diagrams and cross sections,

“So you want to know how your refrigerator operates, do you? Go on, open it up…. NO, wait!” Open the cardboard flaps on the refrigerator in the book instead(page 40). “No tools, no messy parts, no angry parents. There are often pictures making the connection between an invention and nature–for example, a maple tree seed pod next to a helicopter, an eagle next to an airplane. Interesting factoids are sprinkled throughout the text–“Recycling one soda can save enough energy to run your television for three hours!” (printed on the tiny soda can that can be pulled out of the recycling box on page 89).