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As National Science and Engineering Week draws to a close, I have a second inventions book to share with you: See Inside Inventions by Alex Frith, illustrated by Colin King.
We are massive fans of the Usborne Flap Book series, to which this is the latest addition. They are robust (great for in classrooms, or for when your kids fight over them, as ours do), they are hugely informative, they are exciting to read, and they’re just lovely to look at.
In fact, I think there’s a lot to be said for flaps. They draw out curiosity (who wouldn’t want to know what is hidden behind a flap), they introduce drama to reading (what’s going to be revealed…?) and they keep hands busy (great if your reader isn’t one who likes to sit still), so See Inside Inventions was already looking like a winner, even before we started reading.
And when we did start reading, we loved the book even more: It’s always exciting to read a book and feel you’ve learned lots of interesting things.
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Finally getting to read my feeds for the day – head straight to “books” and there you are… This book looks fab – I have glanced at this series but only briefly… (Our library seems to be getting heaps of sort of pink girl series about nothing at the moment and no cool fact books… oh to live in the same country as usborne books!!!)… I know the tin can telephone works… my kids make then with anything container-ish – even paper cups… we have a tall tree at the gate that they climb and it is level with their bedroom about 30 meters away and they can whisper secrets to and fro – fab fun!!! And there are our rockets!!! Thank you – so glad you liked them!!!
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Ha! I can just imagine your kids with their telephones Se7en. So do Usborne not distribute in SA? I’m a bit surprised by that…
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Good excuse to make lots of sticky syrup cakes!
My Child3 taught himself to read largely from ‘How Things Work’ in this series – really good to see another one out. I hope it’s been better edited than the others though, as some of them seem riddled with niggling errors.
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That’s interesting to hear Elli – I haven’t noticed any errors, but then I’m reading stuff that is by and large new to me. What sort of errors were you finding?
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