How it Works Books

In order from Toilet to How It Works: Digger
Toilet
Windmills
How Does a Lighthouse Work?
How It Works Human Body
How It Works: Rocket
How It Works: Digger
Toilet
chapter • 32 Pages
Toilet
Book #1

Toilet

6 - 9
Reading age
32
Page count
Apr 14, 2015
Publication date
Paperback
$9.99
$9.58

Summary

Celebrated author-illustrator and master explainer David Macaulay brings his unique voice and style to high-interest nonfiction books for newly independent readers. Everyone knows what a toilet is for, right? But what exactly happens after you flush? Where does our waste go, and how is it made safe? With his unique blend of informative text and illustration, David Macaulay takes readers on a tour of the bathroom and the sewer system, from the familiar family toilet to the mysterious municipal water treatment plant. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013

How it Works Series

Published from 2015 - 2023
6 books
chapter • 32 Pages
Toilet
Paperback
$9.99$9.58
chapter • 24 Pages
Windmills
Library Binding
$29.93$27.83
picture • 48 Pages
How Does a Lighthouse Work?
Hardcover
$19.99$18.59
board • 24 Pages
How It Works Human Body
Board book
$9.99$9.58
board • 10 Pages
How It Works: Rocket
Board Book
$9.99$9.58
board • 12 Pages
How It Works: Digger
Board Book
$9.99$9.58

The Creatives Behind the Books

    Author & Illustrator
    Roman Belyaev
    Author
    David Macaulay

    Born on December 2, 1946, David Macaulay was ten when his family moved from England to the United States. An early fascination with simple technology and a love of model making and drawing ultimately led him to study architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. He received his degree in 1969 after spending his fifth year with RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome. The next four years were spent working in interior design, teaching junior and senior high school art and tinkering with the idea of making books. The tinkering paid off. His numerous awards include the MacArthur Fellowship, the Caldecott Medal, won for his book Black and White, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, the Washington Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Dutch Silver Slate Pencil Award, and the Bradford Washburn Award, presented by the Museum of Science in Boston to an outstanding contributor to science. He was U.S.nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in both 1984 and 2002. Macaulay currently lives with his family in Vermont.

    Author
    Amelia Hepworth

    Amelia Hepworth lives in London with her family and two elderly sausage dogs. When she is not writing stories, she enjoys spending time with her little boy and daydreaming in the garden. Usually not at the same time.

    Illustrator
    David Semple

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