Promotional Information

Use the flaps to uncover and understand the inner workings of all sorts of machines.

Table of Contents

1 Simple machines

2 Movers & shakers

3 Getting going

4 Making music

5 Waterworks

6 Floating & flying

7 Everyday inventions

8 Up, down & around

9 Bits & pieces

About the Author

Conrad Mason (Author)
Conrad Mason grew up in Oxford, and studied Classics at Cambridge. After graduating he became an editor at Usborne, and now he edits children's fiction for Working Partners. His Tales of Fayt children's series and award-winning middle grade novel, The Girl in Wooden Armour, are all published by David Fickling Books. He likes to read, run, and play the mandolin. Conrad now lives in the Chilterns with his wife and children.

Reviews

A big bright book with robust pages. Familiar objects, from domestic to industrial, are described on every page and then you lift the flap to find out how they work. So, look inside the piano to see the hammer action, lift the flap on the loo to see how ballcocks work. Check out zips and ballpoint pens. Large machines, like excavators, have more than one flap and a lot of information is packed into small spaces. A book to talk about and maybe follow up on the related website.
*Carousel*

A hands-on science lesson!
*Lancashire Evening Post*

These days youngsters don't want to just hear about the mechanics of life, they want to see for themselves exactly what makes our world tick...So Usborne have come up with the perfect answer ... a beautifully designed and illustrated book with over 90 flaps to lift and make exciting discoveries. How Things Work is literally a hands-on science lesson!
*Lancashire Evening Post*

From simple machines (cogs, pulleys, levers) to planes, vehicles and microwaves, How things work reveals the science behind how things work and offers 90 flaps to lift and fantastic, detailed illustrations.
*TheSchoolRun.com*

This is a thoroughly modern information book: highly visual, interactive and linked to websites. In each example the main picture shows the external structure and you lift the flap for an explanation of how the machine works. The copious yet clear annotation shows young readers the importance of the verbal as well as the visual in texts that explain...deserves a place on the Primary school science shelf.
*Books for Keeps*