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4-6
Infographic Top 10s series.
Cool facts about animals are strewn throughout this book, which uses an infographic layout on each double-page spread. The colorful, busy illustrations, diagrams, top-ten lists, and graphics are dizzying, but readers who become engaged will be rewarded with plenty of wacky, jaw-dropping, and cringe-worthy tidbits about animals. Websites. Glos., ind.
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4-6
Infographic Top 10s series.
Cool facts about towers, bridges, and other structures worldwide are strewn throughout the book, which uses an infographic layout on each double-page spread. The colorful, busy illustrations, diagrams, top-ten lists, and graphics are dizzying, but readers who become engaged will be rewarded with plenty of impressive and up-to-date tidbits about structures. Websites. Glos., ind.
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4-6
Infographic Top 10s series.
Cool facts about Earth and the solar system are strewn throughout this book, which uses an infographic layout on each double-page spread. The colorful, busy illustrations, diagrams, top-ten lists, and graphics are dizzying, but readers who become engaged despite that will be rewarded with plenty of fascinating tidbits about our universe. Websites. Glos., ind.
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4-6
Infographic Top 10s series.
Cool facts about people--the body as well as extreme human feats, from wealth to weight-lifting records--are randomly strewn throughout this series installment, which uses an infographic layout on each double-page spread. The colorful, busy illustrations, diagrams, top-ten lists, and graphics are dizzying, but readers who become engaged will be rewarded with plenty of trivia. Websites. Glos., ind.
32 pp.
| Millbrook/Copper
| October, 1999
|
LibraryISBN 0-7613-3255-3$$21.90
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K-3
Science Factory series.
Each of these books offers twelve simple experiments with a few fresh spins on some tried and true activities. Photographs and drawings clearly show the steps involved in constructing such things as a sound cannon, light mixing tubes, and an electronic quiz game built from common items (paper plates, flashlights, batteries). The emphasis is on the projects, however, rather than the ideas they illustrate. Glos., ind.
32 pp.
| Millbrook/Copper
| October, 1999
|
LibraryISBN 0-7613-3254-5$$21.90
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K-3
Science Factory series.
Each of these books offers twelve simple experiments with a few fresh spins on some tried and true activities. Photographs and drawings clearly show the steps involved in constructing such things as a sound cannon, light mixing tubes, and an electronic quiz game built from common items (paper plates, flashlights, batteries). The emphasis is on the projects, however, rather than the ideas they illustrate. Glos., ind.
(4)
K-3
Cutaway series.
Large, fairly simple cutaway illustrations provide an inside look at how the vehicles are designed and perform, while a very brief accompanying text supplies explanatory details, historical background, and "fantastic facts." The illustrations are the work of several artists, whose styles vary in quality. Additional color photographs of the vehicles in action are often mediocre. Glos., ind.
(4)
K-3
Cutaway series.
Large, fairly simple cutaway illustrations provide an inside look at how the vehicles are designed and perform, while a very brief accompanying text supplies explanatory details, historical background, and "fantastic facts." The illustrations are the work of several artists, whose styles vary in quality. Additional color photographs of the vehicles in action are often mediocre. Glos., ind.