How Things Work

by Steve Parker

Open up this brilliantly illustrated book and take a look at how some of the great vehicles of the world work. Look at the inner workings of trains, cars, and bicycles to find out what they can do and how they do it read about some of these vehicles from past, present and future and discover details of the amazing feats achieved.

Genres: Science, Childrens

160 pages, Paperback

Published September 27, 1990

About the author

Steve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.

Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.

Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.

Reviews

[Teethcrow Maltych · Rating 2 out of 5]

Why did this madman think he can teach me how things work?

[Alanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are a lot of great in-depth inner workings in this book that kept the kids asking for more. We took our time reading and talking about each section though, it was great to hear how they thought things worked both before and after reading the chapters out loud. Great scientific type discussions with young children curious about the world around them!

[Rose]

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