Cut, Chop, and Stop: A Book About Wedges (Amazing Science: Simple Machines) Library Binding – January 1, 2006

I love this book and the others in the set! I teach 2nd Grade Science and used this set while teaching simple machines. The books are easy to understand, list many examples of the simple machine being discussed, and are colorful and inviting. The fact that it lists every day items that children are familiar with really helps them to better understand the simple machine it is describing. The end of each book includes an activity to explain how the simple machine is used, fun facts about that simple machine, and a glossary. Each book also includes a list of related books and web sites to continue the study and increase the curiosity of the simple machine being discussed. I highly recommend them all!

Great book. Received quickly.

Leave it to Michael Dahl to do a tremendous job on simple machines. His books on the parts oof speech (illustrated by Sara Gray) are keepers -- and this series is also very worthwhile. Denise Shae's illustrations make the concepts easy to understand. I love how she "zooms in" on the action sometimes, like with chisels.This book is about how we use wedges. It even has an experiment at the back. Very well done, and not just for little kids -- it's a great book about machines for any physics learner.