Synopses & Reviews
Kids will enjoy hours of quiet-time fun with this attractive miniature kit, which features tiny cardboard model airplanes to construct. The kit's cover swings open, book-style, to present a color-illustrated board book that shows several different styles of airplane and describes their different uses. Attached behind the book's final page is a combination back cover and slide-out drawer. When kids open that drawer they'll discover a set of 12 perforated punch-out cards. Each 3 3/8" x 3 3/8" card features an easy-to-make cardboard model of a different style plane. They include an air ambulance, a crop sprayer, a Boeing 747, a helicopter, a Lear Jet, and seven more. Accompanying each card is a companion card on lightweight paper illustrating the completed model on one side and presenting easy directions for its construction on the reverse side. All models are on heavy glossy stock and all illustrations are in full color. A handy glue stick is enclosed with the cards.
Synopsis
(back cover)
Make these 12 good-looking micro models
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Attractive color illustrations and easy-to-follow text combine to present factual information that younger boys and girls will readily absorb and understand. What Are Things Made Of? is one in a series of four entertaining What Do You Know About? books, for very young children. It describes how familiar objects are made from minerals like iron or fashioned from wood or plastic or glass. Four pages presenting activities for children appear at the back of the book, followed by a two-page section for parents, with tips on explaining the subject in more detail.
Synopsis
(back cover)
Candy is made from sugar, and sugar comes from a plant. Your sweater might be made of sheep's wool, and many bridges are made out of stones. We make things by taking some material directly from nature. Other things are made by artificial materials. Things we use every day are made from all kinds of material—wood, paper, metal, glass, wool, cement, and many other materials. But we must always use the right material for each thing we make. Can you imagine the problem we would have if we tried to make this book out of metal? It wouldn't be a very useful book!