Popular Mechanics Company: The Boy Mechanic: Best Projects from the Classic Series

The Boy Mechanic: Best Projects from the Classic Series


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These vintage craftwork projects date from a simpler time, when people were more likely to make their own amusements rather than buy them. Drawn from "Popular Mechanics" magazines of the 1940s, "The Boy Mechanic" features a tremendous variety of well-illustrated projects. They range from the practical to the fanciful, comprising everyday items such as birdhouses and bean shooters as well as unusual ventures, including ice gliders and magnetic theaters. Girls, boys, and adults of both genders will appreciate these engaging projects, which require only common tools and inexpensive supplies. Whether used as a manual or simply read for the pleasure of a look back at the good old days, this book promises hours of enjoyment.

Contents include: Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, Barack Obama, Pope Francis, Martin Luther King, Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mahatma Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, General George S. Patton, Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Vaclav Havel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Indira Gandhi and Winston Churchill to name a few. Snuggle up and share classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes together. Carefully chosen for 4-year-olds, they are easy to read, with enchanting illustrations on every page. Enjoy the classic tales of The Ugly Duckling, Jack and thte Beanstalk, and The Princess and the Pea along with exciting new stories and rhymes to treasure. Erin, January and Mouse live in a children's home, Whitegates. They often dream of escape, and frequently journey into the outside world. Running away is something they know all about. But this time January builds a raft, and the three of them head precariously down river. Towards the Black Middens. This time they might never come back. When they stumble across a disused factory and its strange inhabitants - The Boy Mechanic: Best Projects from the Classic Series download epub Grampa and Heaven Eyes - they wonder if they'll even have the choice. Heaven Eyes is the girl who should have drowned at sea. The mysterious girl desperately searching for her family, hoping that these three might be the family she has lost. She has a secret history only Grampa knows. And does he trust these three invaders enough to tell them? Erin feels a sisterly responsibility for Heaven Eyes, Mouse longs to belong anywhere and anyhow, but January thinks Grampa's a murderer. Whatever happens, all three have a part to play...A stunning novel from the author of the modern children's classic Skellig - winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.


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Author: Popular Mechanics Company
Number of Pages: 144 pages
Published Date: 24 Nov 2006
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780486452272
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