Roll, Slope, and Slide: A Book About Ramps (Amazing Science) (Amazing Science: Simple Machines) - Softcover

Dahl, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1404819096 ISBN 13: 9781404819092

Publisher: Picture Window Books, 2005

Synopsis

Skateboards, roller coasters, and playground slides, all of these are ramps. From award-winning author Michael Dahl, this nonfiction picture book provides an introduction to one of the most important machines humans rely on. With fun facts and bright illustrations, find out how people use ramps every day.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Dahl is the prolific author of the bestselling Goodnight, Baseball picture book and more than 200 other books for children and young adults. He has won the AEP Distinguished Achievement Award three times for his nonfiction, a Teacher’s Choice award from Learning magazine, and a Seal of Excellence from the Creative Child Awards. Dahl currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Review:

Simple Machines are simply fascinating in Michael Dahl's Amazing Science series. They explain how pulleys, wedges, ramps, wheels and axels, levers, and screws help people do work, making them an effective introduction to this key elementary concept. Imagi --NSTA Recommends

These simple concept books are full of pizzazz and wonderfully illustrated with digital graphics that show kids doing typical kid things. The lumberman on the cover of Cut may not be as enticing as the active children depicted on the other titles. The boo --School Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Picture Window Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1404819096
• ISBN 13: 9781404819092
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Denise Shea