Telephones, Televisions, and Toilets: How They Work-And What Can Go Wrong (Discovery Readers)

By Gilda Berger and Melvin A. Berger

Book Overview

This book explains how these basic household items work and how a child can help ensure that they keep working. Technical terms are explained in easy-to-understand words, using analogy and examples to teach and inform. Only the very basic, non-dangerous trouble-shooting methods are described for each household item, including the importance of parental supervision. Illustrated.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824986083
• ISBN13: 9780824986087
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Ideals Childrens Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Three Things That Start With "T".

This book gives an easy-to-understand explanation of how telephones, televisions, and toliets work. The book is written for children, but adults can benefit from reading this book as well (I often understand a subject better by reading a "children's" book on the subject). The book contains some cartoonish illustrations that make the explantions less dry and there are also several diagrams that make the technical knowledge...

4 ½* A Fun Book About Electrical and Mechanical Phenomena

Someone calls this an "odd combination," why, what child isn't fascinated by toilets? The book offers excellent, non-technical explanations for kids with enough detail to keep things interesting. For example, the telephone section (15 pages) mentions sound waves, diaphragms, and radio waves; the television section concisely explains the mixing of color light waves, as well as the transmitter, the antenna, and cable TV, and...