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My son recently discovered David Macaulay’s The Way Things Work Now at the library, and he has been utterly engrossed by it. It’s the 2016 update to the classic 1998 version, The New Way Things Work, which itself was an update to the original The Way Things Work from 1988. What these versions all have in common is that they introduce kids to the inner workings of everyday machines in an entertaining and informative way. Notice that wooly mammoth on the cover above? Miniature versions of those guys make appearances (often as “operators” of sorts) throughout the comprehensive and playful diagrams of machines, which range from basic levers and gears to modern gadgets and music instruments:  From the description:
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David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay has garnered numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post–Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given “to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.” Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of his books. David Macaulay lives with his family in Vermont. The Way Things Work
The Way Things Work is a 1988 nonfiction book by David Macaulay with technical text by Neil Ardley. It is an entertaining[citation needed] introduction to everyday machines and the scientific principles behind their operation, describing machines as simple as levers and gears and as complicated as radio telescopes and automatic transmissions. Every page consists primarily of one or more large diagrams describing the operation of the relevant machine. These diagrams are informative but playful, in that most show the machines operated, used upon, or represented by woolly mammoths, and are accompanied by anecdotes from a mysterious inventor of the mammoths' (fictive) role in the operation. The book's concept was later developed into a short-lived animated TV show (produced by Millimages[1] and distributed by Schlessinger Media), a Dorling Kindersley interactive CD-ROM (including a spin-off pinball game, Pinball Science), and a board game. A family "ride" involving animatronics and a 3-D film based on the book was one of the original attractions at the San Francisco Metreon, but closed in 2001. The New Way Things Work[edit]A revised and updated version, The New Way Things Work, released on October 26, 1998, contains additional text on the workings of computers and digital technology. A number of pages were dropped, among them a two-page demonstration of a mechanical coin-operated parking meter and the original descriptions of computing. The original's computing section included four pages explaining the workings of a pocket calculator and the distinctions between a calculator and a general-purpose computer, and four pages on binary arithmetic, logical AND and OR gates, and how these are assembled into a half adder and full adder; these were replaced with entirely new art and more detailed descriptions, with a longer story, 'The Last Mammoth', depicting a lonely mammoth invited to visit the 'Digital Domain' by its proprietor Bill,[2] which uses the mammoth's assistance and a humorous pumpkin-and-apple-based mechanical computer to create a video depiction of a community of mammoths. Like the previous version, a CD-ROM version was released. The Way Things Work Now[edit]A substantially revised edition, The Way Things Work Now, was published in October 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Dorling Kindersley. Contents for The New Way Things Work[edit]While the individual sections and subsections are changed in The Way Things Work Now, the structure and Table of Contents remain the same.
With a glossary of technical terms and an index at the back of the book. Publishing history[edit]
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