X-Ray Machines (Rookie Read-About Science: How Things Work) (Library Edition) - Hardcover

Mattern, Joanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0531213714 ISBN 13: 9780531213711

Publisher: Children's Press, 2015

Synopsis

A machine that can see through your body to reveal the bones inside. It sounds like science fiction!

Using simple text and clear photography, this book exposes readers (Ages 6-7) to the technology behind this amazing diagnostic tool.

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About the Author

Mattern is the author of many books for children. Her favorite topics include animals, biography, and history. She lives in the Hudson Valley of New York State.

Reviews

Gr 1-3-These introductions to techno-wonders that most children are likely to encounter (submarines perhaps excepted) illustrate simple but not simplistic explanations of major functions and components with bright color photos and easy-to-comprehend labeled cutaway views. Lightbulbs, for example, not only illuminates the inner workings of the incandescent bulb (and some of its predecessors) but LEDs and CFLs, too. Each volume closes with a time line and a project ranging in challenge level from a soda bottle "submarine" to a basic paper airplane. Each also broadens its central topic with looks at special use variants, such as, in Toilets, a space toilet. VERDICT Newly independent readers will find any of these selections good first steps toward understanding the inner workings of their technological world.α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Children's Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0531213714
• ISBN 13: 9780531213711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32