| Details | | Publication Date: | 1994-11-01 | | Series: | Look Inside Cross-Sections Series | | Illustrator: | Gary Biggin, Nick Lipscombe |
| Size | | Height: | 11.0 in | | Width: | 8.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Publisher's Note Give children X-ray eyes with these amazingly detailed illustrated books. Each subject is torn apart to reveal all its inner workings.
Industry Reviews Gr 4-6 Intended for casual browsing, these slim volumes feature cutaway illustrations, haphazardly labeled and surrounded by brief comments or anecdotes. A dozen spacecraft float through Space, from a Mercury capsule to the Hubble telescope, including Voskhod 2 and an Ariane rocket; the Cars depicted are evenly split between racing models and classics like the Austin Mini and a '57 Cadillac. The illustrators attempt to add individuality to each scene with human figures a female astronaut demonstrates the ``Manned (!) Maneuvering Unit,'' for instance, and a wounded soldier lies in the jeep but much of the fine detail has been simplified, and the paintings have a generic look. Snippets of historical information and performance data make up the text; labels use mostly Americans terms (but mufflers are called ``exhaust silencers''). Adequate, if unspectacular, alternatives to the ``Easy Read Fact Books'' (Watts) and other lookalike series. John Peters, New York Public Library Lopate
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