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Now That's Big!
11 Reviews
(4)
K-3
Now That's Big! series.
This series introduces young vehicle buffs to huge, record-breaking machinery, including aircraft, mining equipment, and ships. Accessible texts describe the uses and history of each machine, and final spreads provide useful pictorial size comparisons. The large glossy photographs are impressive, but the brief captions are sometimes unclear; dull cover art dryly advertises the series, not the individual machines. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Now That's Big! titles: Antonov An-225 Mriya, Krupp Digging Machines, Mil Mi-26, Nimitz Aircraft Carrier, Oasis of the Seas, and Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60.
Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin
(4)
K-3
Now That's Big! series.
This series introduces young vehicle buffs to huge, record-breaking machinery, including aircraft, mining equipment, and ships. Accessible texts describe the uses and history of each machine, and final spreads provide useful pictorial size comparisons. The large glossy photographs are impressive, but the brief captions are sometimes unclear; dull cover art dryly advertises the series, not the individual machines. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Now That's Big! titles: Antonov An-225 Mriya, Krupp Digging Machines, Mil Mi-26, Nimitz Aircraft Carrier, Oasis of the Seas, and Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60.
Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin
(4)
K-3
Now That's Big! series.
This series introduces young vehicle buffs to huge, record-breaking machinery, including aircraft, mining equipment, and ships. Accessible texts describe the uses and history of each machine, and final spreads provide useful pictorial size comparisons. The large glossy photographs are impressive, but the brief captions are sometimes unclear; dull cover art dryly advertises the series, not the individual machines. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Now That's Big! titles: Antonov An-225 Mriya, Krupp Digging Machines, Mil Mi-26, Nimitz Aircraft Carrier, Oasis of the Seas, and Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60.
Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin
(4)
K-3
Now That's Big! series.
This series introduces young vehicle buffs to huge, record-breaking machinery, including aircraft, mining equipment, and ships. Accessible texts describe the uses and history of each machine, and final spreads provide useful pictorial size comparisons. The large glossy photographs are impressive, but the brief captions are sometimes unclear; dull cover art dryly advertises the series, not the individual machines. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Now That's Big! titles: Antonov An-225 Mriya, Krupp Digging Machines, Mil Mi-26, Nimitz Aircraft Carrier, Oasis of the Seas, and Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60.
Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin
(4)
K-3
Now That's Big! series.
This series introduces young vehicle buffs to huge, record-breaking machinery, including aircraft, mining equipment, and ships. Accessible texts describe the uses and history of each machine, and final spreads provide useful pictorial size comparisons. The large glossy photographs are impressive, but the brief captions are sometimes unclear; dull cover art dryly advertises the series, not the individual machines. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Now That's Big! titles: Antonov An-225 Mriya, Krupp Digging Machines, Mil Mi-26, Nimitz Aircraft Carrier, Oasis of the Seas, and Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60.
Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin
(4)
K-3
Now That's Big! series.
This series introduces young vehicle buffs to huge, record-breaking machinery, including aircraft, mining equipment, and ships. Accessible texts describe the uses and history of each machine, and final spreads provide useful pictorial size comparisons. The large glossy photographs are impressive, but the brief captions are sometimes unclear; dull cover art dryly advertises the series, not the individual machines. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Now That's Big! titles: Antonov An-225 Mriya, Krupp Digging Machines, Mil Mi-26, Nimitz Aircraft Carrier, Oasis of the Seas, and Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60.
Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin
(4)
K-3
Now That's Big! series.
This series highlights marvels of human engineering. Building on a massive scale takes huge effort, and crisp photographs in clean layouts illustrate these monumental feats. The large-font texts, though informative, can be choppy and vague ("People in South Dakota made Mount Rushmore to get other people to visit their state," "People love working in or visiting the Empire State Building"). Reading list. Glos., ind. Review cover these Now That's Big! titles: Empire State Building, Golden Gate Bridge, and Mount Rushmore.
Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo
(4)
K-3
Now That's Big! series.
This book highlights that marvel of human engineering, the Suez Canal. Crisp photographs in clean layouts illustrate the monumental feat. The large-font text, though informative, can be vague ("They used their bare hands, shovels, and baskets to dig. Later on, de Lesseps got machines for them to use") and the facts unsupported (did "about 2.4 million Egyptians" really work on the canal?). Reading list. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo
(4)
K-3
Now That's Big! series.
This series highlights marvels of human engineering. Building on a massive scale takes huge effort, and crisp photographs in clean layouts illustrate these monumental feats. The large-font texts, though informative, can be choppy and vague ("People in South Dakota made Mount Rushmore to get other people to visit their state," "People love working in or visiting the Empire State Building"). Reading list. Glos., ind. Review cover these Now That's Big! titles: Empire State Building, Golden Gate Bridge, and Mount Rushmore.
Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo
(4)
K-3
Now That's Big! series.
This series highlights marvels of human engineering. Building on a massive scale takes huge effort, and crisp photographs in clean layouts illustrate these monumental feats. The large-font texts, though informative, can be choppy and vague ("People in South Dakota made Mount Rushmore to get other people to visit their state," "People love working in or visiting the Empire State Building"). Reading list. Glos., ind. Review cover these Now That's Big! titles: Empire State Building, Golden Gate Bridge, and Mount Rushmore.
Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo
(4)
K-3
Now That's Big! series.
This book highlights the Eiffel Tower as a marvel of human engineering: sturdy latticework of eighteen thousand iron and steel beams. Crisp photographs in clean layouts illustrate the workers' monumental feat. The large-font text, though informative, can be choppy and vague ("Lots of people go to Paris in the summer. It is hot then"). Reading list. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo
11 reviews
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