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Title: Incredible Cross-Sections by Jr. Richard H. Platt ISBN: 0-679-81411-6 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 07 July, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of a Great Series
Comment: Illustrator Stephen Biesty carved out his own niche in books by grabbing a concept and doing it well, over and over again. The concept was to take well-known but complex things, like locomotives, ocean liners, airliners, castles, churches, and the space shuttle, and make them more understandable by giving a series of drawings, for each object, showing what that object would look like if it were sliced in sections. Kind of sounds like an MRI in medicine! The drawings are bright, colorful, and extremely detailed. With each item, there is a short, clearly-written description of the object and some of its aspects. These books make great gifts for older kids, who will get a kick out of the fact that most items show the bathrooms in use, and don't be surprised if an adult or two peeks at the book several times.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross Sections
Comment: Wow! This book is really great! From opera houses to medieval cathedrals and castles, this incredible book of cross sections pinpoints every last detail! It shows all the different parts, what they are used for, and tons more! Buy this book today. You won't be disappointed.
Rating: 5
Summary: incredible book a bit dated
Comment: Who of us can't remember the excitement of looking at some wonderful building or structure and wondering *what was going on in there*? Stephen Biesty deserves an entry in Who's Who for thinking of this wonderful format for readers who wonder. This is a wonderful and exciting book for older kids and adults who are curious about how things work behind-the-scenes. While it can be tricky for younger children to envision how the objects go back together, there will ample material for others to enjoy. Eighteen human-made objects are cross-sectioned: a castle, an observatory, a galleon, ocean liner and submarine, a coal mine, military tank, oil rig, cathedral, jumbo jet and car factory, a helicopter, an opera house, a steam train and a subway station, a fishing trawler, the Empire State Building and the space shuttle. The sections are filled with defining activity, and Richard Platt's accompanying text is informative and amusing.
First published in 1992, this book is also a fascinating testament to the breathtaking pace of change we experience. Many of the objects have changed a great deal in the past decade, so this is more a snapshot of one era's mechanisms than a blueprint of state-of-the-art technology. For that reason the book succeeds spectacularly with historic objects such as the castle and galleon, and only slightly less so with outdated items like the tank and helicopter.
If you are interested in how things work, these unique views of engineering marvels in operation will thrill you.
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Title: The Coolest Cross-Sections Ever! by Stephen Biesty, Richard Platt ISBN: 0789479648 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Incredible Explosions : Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections by Stephen Biesty, Richard Platt ISBN: 0789410249 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Rome: In Spectacular Cross Section by Stephen Biesty, Andrew Solway ISBN: 0439455464 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Man-Of-War : Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections by Stephen Biesty, Richard Platt ISBN: 156458321X Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Castle : Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections by Richard Platt, Stephen Biesty, Roger Platt ISBN: 1564584674 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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