Synopsis
This title utilizes real-size photographs to teach young learners about simple machines. Instead of explaining in words alone how machines look and function, the book conveys information about scale, proportion, and use with accurately-sized photographs.
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About the Author
Rebecca Rissman is an award-winning children's author and editor. Her writing has been praised by School Library Journal, Booklist, Creative Child Magazine, and Learning Magazine. She has written more than 200 books about history, culture, science, and art. She lives in Chicago, Illinois with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys yoga, reading, and cooking.
From Booklist
There is no shortage of youth titles on simple machines, but this one benefits from the publisher’s clean, elegant, tried-and-true format of devoting two-thirds of each page to a vibrant, highly relevant photo, while using the remaining third for one or two very short sentences. Rissman begins with declarative statements: “Machines are tools. Machines make work easier.” Simple, yes, but the two accompanying photos will immediately open minds: one of an egg beater, the other of a massive construction crane. Then begins the roll-out of the basic machines: lever, wheel and axle, inclined plane, screw, pulley, and wedge. What makes this book part of the Real Size Science series is that many of the photos are stamped “Real Size” and feature the object—a crowbar, inline skates, a water bottle—at a realistic dimension. This addition is not especially useful, but it does add a point of interest. A picture glossary concludes. Preschool-Grade 1. --Daniel Kraus
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