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Steven Caney's Ultimate Building Book: Including More Than 100 Incredible Projects Kids Can Make!
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-12-19 Summary: Building Wow!! ... My son enjoys this book so much!! It is a huge book full of ideas!! Worth the price!! ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-07-17 Summary: Excellent resource for teachers and parents!!! ... This book really is the "Ultimate Building Book." I am a teacher of third and fourth graders and plan to use this book to supplement my teaching in the upcoming year. It has wonderful construction ideas for children, step-by-step pictures, key vocabulary, great descriptions of all kinds of buildings in both the natural world and those constructed by people, and even includes stories and other language arts connections. Of course the connections to science, social studies, and math are natural outcomes of the projects. ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-05-14 Summary: fantastic building book ... Our homeschool group met yesterday and the kids had a fantastic time building with 5 of the different building systems in this book. My kids and I were inspired to make a swimming pool noodle raft using a building system of our own. All of the moms at our meeting are ordering this book after seeing mine. As others have said, the first half of the book is all about every kind of building type you can think of, skyscrapers to wigwams. The second half of the book includes very simple, clear instructions for many different ...more
[4] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-04-27 Summary: the best "how to make things at home" books I have seen ... Man, this book has it all for the 'kid at home' project center. It has not only the project but the history of what the project is based on and real life examples of how the principles are used and it just keeps going. It may be a bit daunting for a 10 year old to try to tackle this book by themselves but once they get going it just keeps giving. I highly recomend this one for anyone who has kids at home. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Ever wonder how a suspension bridge can cross a gap thousands of feet wide? Want to know how to build a comfortable lounge chair out of cardboard boxes? Or what keeps a massive cathedral dome from collapsing? Discover the answers to these and many more questions in Steven Caney’s Ultimate Building Book , a wonderfully comprehensive exploration of design, construction, and invention that will stimulate the curiosity of children and adults alike. Much as David Macaulay's blockbuster The...more
Steven Caney's Ultimate Building Book: Including More Than 100 Incredible Projects Kids Can Make!
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-12-19 Summary: Building Wow!! ... My son enjoys this book so much!! It is a huge book full of ideas!! Worth the price!! ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-07-17 Summary: Excellent resource for teachers and parents!!! ... This book really is the "Ultimate Building Book." I am a teacher of third and fourth graders and plan to use this book to supplement my teaching in the upcoming year. It has wonderful construction ideas for children, step-by-step pictures, key vocabulary, great descriptions of all kinds of buildings in both the natural world and those constructed by people, and even includes stories and other language arts connections. Of course the connections to science, social studies, and math are natural outcomes of the projects. ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-05-14 Summary: fantastic building book ... Our homeschool group met yesterday and the kids had a fantastic time building with 5 of the different building systems in this book. My kids and I were inspired to make a swimming pool noodle raft using a building system of our own. All of the moms at our meeting are ordering this book after seeing mine. As others have said, the first half of the book is all about every kind of building type you can think of, skyscrapers to wigwams. The second half of the book includes very simple, clear instructions for many different ...more
[4] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-04-27 Summary: the best "how to make things at home" books I have seen ... Man, this book has it all for the 'kid at home' project center. It has not only the project but the history of what the project is based on and real life examples of how the principles are used and it just keeps going. It may be a bit daunting for a 10 year old to try to tackle this book by themselves but once they get going it just keeps giving. I highly recomend this one for anyone who has kids at home. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Ever wonder how a suspension bridge can cross a gap thousands of feet wide? Want to know how to build a comfortable lounge chair out of cardboard boxes? Or what keeps a massive cathedral dome from collapsing? Discover the answers to these and many more questions in Steven Caney’s Ultimate Building Book , a wonderfully comprehensive exploration of design, construction, and invention that will stimulate the curiosity of children and adults alike. Much as David Macaulay's blockbuster The...more
Quick & Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom: American Revolution: 20 Fun, Web-based Activities With Reproducible Graphic Organizers ... Kids to Research and Learn-On Their Own!
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Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | 20 Fun, Web-based Activities With Reproducible Graphic Organizers That Enable Kids to Research and Learn‹On Their Own! Great for Independent Learning! Did you know that "Yankee Doodle" was written to poke fun at the Colonial army? Or that several women, such as Deborah Sampson, played important roles in the American Revolution? Students build Internet research skills while learning these and other fascinating facts. Great graphic organizers aid students in recording information to use...more
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Crayola Kids Adventures)
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2000-07-27 Summary: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ... 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a great book. It takes place inFrance when a "whale" starts attacking ships. SoProf. Aronnax sets out to rid the seas of this whale with his loyal servant Conseil and a harpooner by the name of Ned Land.But...end up as crew of a subarine called the Nautilus, the "whale" depicted by sailors. The captain,known as Captain Nemo, brings them through many adventures. Some include visiting the lost city of Atlantis,And even finding a lost continent! Jules Verne is my favorite author and I would ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 1998-11-11 Summary: Good... Is this a good idea? ... O.K. I'm not good at summaries but its a good playbook for kids. Interesting and it has good beginning pictures. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Trapped aboard a fantastic submarine with a mad sea captain, a French professor and his companions come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange, forbidden sights hidden from the world above. This is the classic deep sea adventure from the world's first and best science-fiction author....more
Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood
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Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | To sort out who's who and what's what in the enchanting, vexing world of Barbies(r) and Ninja Turtles(r), Tinkertoys(r) and teddy bears, is to begin to see what's become of childhood in America. It is this changing world, and what it unveils about our values and expectations concerning our children, that Gary Cross explores in Kids' Stuff, a revealing look into the meaning of American toys through this century....more
[2] ... Review | Let the reader beware: after perusing Kids' Stuff , you'll never again be able to cruise the aisles of Toys "R" Us with an untroubled soul. In this history of toys, author Gary Cross relates a joyless world of useless plastic objects and manipulative advertising aimed at children. He begins with a discussion of how the concept of toys has changed since the 19th century, positing that toys are a prime example of a consumer economy run amok. What started out as the manufacture of toys meant to function...more
The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-11-11 Summary: The Kid of Coney Island - bio of the builder of the NY Hippodrome. ... The book is well researched and written. I would liked to have seen more details on the great Hippodrome, it's stage machinery, rigging, tank for water ballets, lighting, dimensions and so on. The book took far too long to be delivered. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2001-10-19 Summary: Fred Thompson habitue of Coney Island Restaurants ... As a lifelong resident of Coney Island,and the author of a recently published memoir entitled Remembrance of a Restaurant,or a Decameron of Dining,I share the deserved enthusiasm of all reviews for this life of remarkable showman,Fred Thompson. Unlike other reviews, mine is more intimate. Fred Thompson was an habitue of the finest restaurants of the period like Ravenhall's,Villepique's,Beau Rivage,and my parents notable landmark restaurant called Villa Joe's.A Little Bit of Naples in Coney Island.It was razed by urban ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2001-09-11 Summary: The Rise of the New Leisure Class ... Fred Thompson was the "kid" (he was in his early twenties when he built Luna Park in Coney Island) who first recognized that the American middle class in the early 20th century was ripe for amusement and fun, ready to embrace consumption, fun and leisure as a moral system. Here he is given his due as a great innovator (inventor of the theme park), and a great showman (Broadway producer of mega-extravaganzas). Woody Register's highly readable and extremely insightful book is not just about Fred Thompson (of which there ...more
[4] Rating: 4 Date: 2001-09-07 Summary: From Side Show to Broadway ... The mysterious Fredrick Thompson left little biographical information in his wake, but Woody Register has taken the scant evidence and woven it into a revealing narritive of the man who made Coney Island famous. This book cchronicles an even more important story as well, the concepts of leisure and amusements in the 20th century. The theme park, theatrical spectacular, Vegas showroom and Broadway all own a debt to Fred Thompson's inner child. This book is a must for anyone serious about the business of fun. ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | A generation before Walt Disney, Fred Thompson was the "boy-wonder" of American popular amusements. At the turn of the 20th century, Thompson's entrepreneurial drive made him into an entertainment mogul who helped to define the popular culture of his day. In this lively biography, Woody Register tells Thompson's remarkable story and examines the transformation of commerce and entertainment as American society moved into an era of mass marketing and large-scale corporate enterprise. Getting...more
[2] ... Review | Fred Thompson (1873-1919) was a pioneering entrepreneur who encouraged Americans, especially American men, to have fun and stop feeling guilty about it. He designed and built Luna Park, which in 1903 transformed Coney Island from an area so tawdry it was known as "Sodom by the Sea" into a respectable venue for middle-class recreation. He created the Hippodrome, the world's largest theater when it opened in 1905, and filled it with lavish spectacles at affordable ticket prices. He moved on to become...more