The Big Book of How Things Work: Fully Illustrated Answers to Machines, Gadgets, Science, Nature, Space, and Everyday Life (Young Explorer Series)

Your kid asks how everything works. Now you will have the answers. Brand New Updated Edition: every explanation rewritten and the whole book redesigned. Curious kids want to know how toilets, rockets and their own heartbeat work, and it just does never satisfies them. This book answers 70 of those questions, each with a clear explanation and a big labeled picture.

Try one right now:

The toilet: Every toilet in your house is holding a hidden pool of water, waiting for one press of a handle to set off a tiny flood. Popcorn: A popcorn kernel is really a tiny sealed pressure tank, and it explodes the moment that pressure gets too strong to hold. The helicopter: A helicopter can freeze in midair like nothing else that flies, hanging perfectly still above one spot on the ground.
That is three of seventy. The Big Machine Tour has 10 stops, from the kitchen to outer space.

Two-page spreads: a short answer on the left, a labeled step-by-step picture on the right. Real numbers: fact-checked By The Numbers and History Bite boxes for every machine. Hands-on fun: safe experiments, Spot It checklists and an Engineer's Notebook at every stop. Made to keep: a dictionary, a timeline, a 20-question quiz and a Junior Engineer Certificate.
For the grown-ups: screen-free reading that sparks real conversations, and a book kids 7 to 11 pick up on their own.

Add it to your cart today and turn the next how does that work? into a shared moment.

A perfect birthday, Christmas or back-to-school gift for curious kids, and a keeper from grandparents to the grandchild who always asks how.