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Winnie The Pooh's Thinking Spot #5
Does It Float? Buoyancy
Eeyore discovers what floats and what sinks in the Hundred-Acre Wood.
Pooh and his friends wander through the Hundred-Acre Wood discovering all kinds of things such as nocturnal animals (volume 15 "Why Aren't You Asleep"?), how plants grow (volume 9 "How Does Your Garden Grow?"), and gravity (volume 3 "Why Don't things Fall Up"?).
Each story incorporates simple science examining how young children learn through listening, questioning, observing, comparing, and experimenting. Every story ends with a hands-on activity for parents and children to do together.
Size: 9x9x1/4
Pooh and his friends wander through the Hundred-Acre Wood discovering all kinds of things such as nocturnal animals (volume 15 "Why Aren't You Asleep"?), how plants grow (volume 9 "How Does Your Garden Grow?"), and gravity (volume 3 "Why Don't things Fall Up"?).
Each story incorporates simple science examining how young children learn through listening, questioning, observing, comparing, and experimenting. Every story ends with a hands-on activity for parents and children to do together.
Size: 9x9x1/4
28 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2005
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Lisa Ann Marsoli
181 books10 followersLisa Ann Marsoli (born 1958) is the author of over 150 published books, including two New York Times best-sellers and a Publishers Weekly best-seller.
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October 15, 2022
In a story in which lots of things fall into water, Eeyore is sad because everyone except him can make something float. The story is a bit dull and doesn't really explain why some things float and others don't. Meh.
It did inspire me to watch some clips of David Letterman's "Will It Float?" game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdBkV...
(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list... )
It did inspire me to watch some clips of David Letterman's "Will It Float?" game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdBkV...
(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list... )
August 27, 2013
Another excellent book in this collection! All my children love this book! A great way to get kids thinking about the world around them and the wonder of science. And nothing typical! I'm so tired of the five senses or animal habitats! This gets your kid thinking and even has descriptions, details of why things happen the way they happen, and experiments that can be done at the end of the book. Besides that, it's Disney Winnie the Pooh characters with bright colorful pictures. Somewhere around a level 1 or 2 reading level, even my twin 3 yr olds will sit still for these. Absolutely love them! A great addition for any children's collection!
May 29, 2018
Kids can learn why things float, not just what.
October 1, 2022
"Kāpēc tas peld?" - vēl viena jauka lasāmviela loti foršā grāmatu sērijā ar interesantām un izzinošām grāmatiņām.
November 17, 2022
I really like how these stories inspire my kids to share the things they know about the topics.
November 2, 2015
Everyone has heard of “Winnie The Pooh” but not Manitoba’s capital city, Winnipeg. This is the bear’s origin: the character and a real black bear, which thrives here. A black bear was transported to an English zoo, for reasons I don’t know. As a Canadian soldier took solace in visiting this native from our city, Alan Alexander Milne was there with his son, Christopher Robin. The solider told them the bear’s name and explained that “Winnie” is for Winnipeg. This soon to be famous author kept our bear’s name and that of his son.
A long way from our prairie at the centre of North America, newer authors have adapted Alan’s characters into all sorts of stories. “Does It Float?” by Lisa Ann Marsoli and Adam Devaney belongs to a science series for children, called ”Thinking Spot”. Their instalment from 2005 is about buoyancy, in which poor Eeyore is martyred as the character who cannot catch a break; an unkind constant to these stories of which I have never approved. Surely someone else can be upset or inconvenienced from book to book. Even as a tiny child, this casting of Eeyore as the glum one tumbling out of hurdles, came across as him being picked on. My reading of the actual stories was thus short lived. I was no less dismayed with this book. Surely we can make-up a story about floating without pinning misfortune on him over again.
The animals are riding a homemade raft which fails. A buoyancy experiment arises because they notice everything they had aboard is bobbing on the water, except dear Eeyore’s lucky rock. This is a brightly-drawn, well-explained lesson. However it closed hollowly. Surely a fictitious tale can guarantee Eeyore’s lucky rock is brought back. There’s no reason not to have a happy conclusion.
A long way from our prairie at the centre of North America, newer authors have adapted Alan’s characters into all sorts of stories. “Does It Float?” by Lisa Ann Marsoli and Adam Devaney belongs to a science series for children, called ”Thinking Spot”. Their instalment from 2005 is about buoyancy, in which poor Eeyore is martyred as the character who cannot catch a break; an unkind constant to these stories of which I have never approved. Surely someone else can be upset or inconvenienced from book to book. Even as a tiny child, this casting of Eeyore as the glum one tumbling out of hurdles, came across as him being picked on. My reading of the actual stories was thus short lived. I was no less dismayed with this book. Surely we can make-up a story about floating without pinning misfortune on him over again.
The animals are riding a homemade raft which fails. A buoyancy experiment arises because they notice everything they had aboard is bobbing on the water, except dear Eeyore’s lucky rock. This is a brightly-drawn, well-explained lesson. However it closed hollowly. Surely a fictitious tale can guarantee Eeyore’s lucky rock is brought back. There’s no reason not to have a happy conclusion.
April 3, 2013
I think this book was a great educational book, but it give the information a spin. This book would help in a classroom by demonstrating whether things float or not.
December 1, 2015
Oikein mukavan tietopaketti pienille mukavilla hahmoilla. Selkeä.
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