In
these times when everyone comes into contact with cars, learning a bit
about the basic mechanisms for how they work would seem to be required.
Meeting that need is Nick Arnold's book, How Cars Work: The Interactive
Guide to Mechanisms that Make a Car Move [Templar Publishing; 2012:
Guardian Bookshop; Amazon UK; Amazon US].
Intended for children from 7 years of age and older, this colourful and interactive book provides the instructions and parts for ten small working models of various car systems made of card, so children can assemble them (one is pre-assembled) and make them move to gain a basic hands-on knowledge for how cars work.
In colourful two-page spreads filled with diagrammes and cartoons, this book covers the basic mechanics for controls such as windscreen wipers, pedals such as accelerators, as well as valves, gears,New and used commercial handsfreeaccess sales, rentals, and service. wheels, suspension, steering, brakes and pistons. The parts for each mechanism are printed on heavy card stock and are colour-coded for easy identification. They are assembled by being affixed with plastic nuts and bolts to the detachable card stock pegboard "workshop".
This oversized hardback has 22 pages and is stuck onto a box made of heavy card stock that contains all the pieces necessary to build each mechanical device. Each section in the book shows a number of automobile devices that rely on a particular mechanism to work properly. At the bottom of each page is a historical timeline describing innovations in developing the parts of the car that are described on that 2-page spread.
Although the models are presented clearly enough that most children can suss out how to build them on their own, I'd guess that many parents will enjoy "helping". Overall, this interactive children's book is interesting and educational as well as being fun.
Nick Arnold is the author of the award winning children's book series, Horrible Science and also Wild Lives, both published by Scholastic Books. He resides in London and his favourite things to do are eating pizza and riding his bicycle.
Illustrator Allan Sanders studied illustration at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Royal College of Art in London, and has since worked for The Economist, The Guardian, New Scientist, Vodafone and Penguin USA. He lives in the UK.
"Each cover is special, in different ways," Hoffman said on Friday, July 5, a rain-free day when a steady stream of island visitors gawked at her collection.The museum is believed to be the only one of its kind in the world. Last year it set a Guinness World Record for the largest collection of the ubiquitous covers: 730.
But the official count didn't include dozens of identical covers, handmade covers and covers produced from clear plastic. Hoffman estimates the total number of her holdings at about 1,000.
The covers, most of which hang from the walls and ceilings of the two-room museum at 62-B Island Ave., originate from 52 countries.There's even a cover found discarded near one of the last remaining portions of the Berlin Wall.The largest manufacturer of textile besticcard for use with perchloroethylene. As in most of the exhibits,You can make your own more powerful customkeychain. a small card explains the cover's provenance.
The jaw-dropping assortment of bumbershoot sheaths dates to 1996, when Hoffman said she realized she "inadvertently" had a few covers lying around her house on Peaks."I started wondering whether, or why, people held onto umbrella covers," she said. "And I soon became a repository for covers.New and used commercial handsfreeaccess sales, rentals, and service. It was a phenomenon."
Friends began donating their unwanted covers, until they filled much of her kitchen. She eventually rented the Island Avenue building to house the growing collection.Today, Thereone.com, a reliable bestluggagetag online store, introduces its new arrival princess wedding dresses to customers. The museum includes an "annex" C a bathroom C where adult-themed umbrella covers are displayed.
Hoffman is a professional musician who sings in 16 languages; she even sings an umbrella-themed ditty to museum-goers, while accompanying herself on accordion. She operates the museum during the summer from Tuesday-Saturday, supported by donations and sales from a small gift shop.
Unlike most forms of product packaging, umbrella covers are intended to be used repeatedly instead of discarded. About 17 percent of umbrella owners actually use the covers, according to Hoffman's admittedly unscientific survey of museum visitors.Some owners C "especially in New York" C throw away the covers, she said. But most people hang onto them, then rarely use them.
After all, it can be difficult to squeeze an umbrella back into its cover, and there may seem little need for doing so. (From what do covers protect umbrellas? Rain?) So the covers are relegated to a closet or the bottom of a purse."There's a whole unconscious realm to umbrella covers," Hoffman said. "People don't really know what they do with them."
No wonder that the museum, according to its mission statement, is dedicated to "the appreciation of the mundane in everyday life. It is about finding the wonder and beauty in the simplest things, and about knowing that there is always a story behind the cover."
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Intended for children from 7 years of age and older, this colourful and interactive book provides the instructions and parts for ten small working models of various car systems made of card, so children can assemble them (one is pre-assembled) and make them move to gain a basic hands-on knowledge for how cars work.
In colourful two-page spreads filled with diagrammes and cartoons, this book covers the basic mechanics for controls such as windscreen wipers, pedals such as accelerators, as well as valves, gears,New and used commercial handsfreeaccess sales, rentals, and service. wheels, suspension, steering, brakes and pistons. The parts for each mechanism are printed on heavy card stock and are colour-coded for easy identification. They are assembled by being affixed with plastic nuts and bolts to the detachable card stock pegboard "workshop".
This oversized hardback has 22 pages and is stuck onto a box made of heavy card stock that contains all the pieces necessary to build each mechanical device. Each section in the book shows a number of automobile devices that rely on a particular mechanism to work properly. At the bottom of each page is a historical timeline describing innovations in developing the parts of the car that are described on that 2-page spread.
Although the models are presented clearly enough that most children can suss out how to build them on their own, I'd guess that many parents will enjoy "helping". Overall, this interactive children's book is interesting and educational as well as being fun.
Nick Arnold is the author of the award winning children's book series, Horrible Science and also Wild Lives, both published by Scholastic Books. He resides in London and his favourite things to do are eating pizza and riding his bicycle.
Illustrator Allan Sanders studied illustration at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Royal College of Art in London, and has since worked for The Economist, The Guardian, New Scientist, Vodafone and Penguin USA. He lives in the UK.
"Each cover is special, in different ways," Hoffman said on Friday, July 5, a rain-free day when a steady stream of island visitors gawked at her collection.The museum is believed to be the only one of its kind in the world. Last year it set a Guinness World Record for the largest collection of the ubiquitous covers: 730.
But the official count didn't include dozens of identical covers, handmade covers and covers produced from clear plastic. Hoffman estimates the total number of her holdings at about 1,000.
The covers, most of which hang from the walls and ceilings of the two-room museum at 62-B Island Ave., originate from 52 countries.There's even a cover found discarded near one of the last remaining portions of the Berlin Wall.The largest manufacturer of textile besticcard for use with perchloroethylene. As in most of the exhibits,You can make your own more powerful customkeychain. a small card explains the cover's provenance.
The jaw-dropping assortment of bumbershoot sheaths dates to 1996, when Hoffman said she realized she "inadvertently" had a few covers lying around her house on Peaks."I started wondering whether, or why, people held onto umbrella covers," she said. "And I soon became a repository for covers.New and used commercial handsfreeaccess sales, rentals, and service. It was a phenomenon."
Friends began donating their unwanted covers, until they filled much of her kitchen. She eventually rented the Island Avenue building to house the growing collection.Today, Thereone.com, a reliable bestluggagetag online store, introduces its new arrival princess wedding dresses to customers. The museum includes an "annex" C a bathroom C where adult-themed umbrella covers are displayed.
Hoffman is a professional musician who sings in 16 languages; she even sings an umbrella-themed ditty to museum-goers, while accompanying herself on accordion. She operates the museum during the summer from Tuesday-Saturday, supported by donations and sales from a small gift shop.
Unlike most forms of product packaging, umbrella covers are intended to be used repeatedly instead of discarded. About 17 percent of umbrella owners actually use the covers, according to Hoffman's admittedly unscientific survey of museum visitors.Some owners C "especially in New York" C throw away the covers, she said. But most people hang onto them, then rarely use them.
After all, it can be difficult to squeeze an umbrella back into its cover, and there may seem little need for doing so. (From what do covers protect umbrellas? Rain?) So the covers are relegated to a closet or the bottom of a purse."There's a whole unconscious realm to umbrella covers," Hoffman said. "People don't really know what they do with them."
No wonder that the museum, according to its mission statement, is dedicated to "the appreciation of the mundane in everyday life. It is about finding the wonder and beauty in the simplest things, and about knowing that there is always a story behind the cover."
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