How to Really Fool Yourself
Illusions for All Your Senses
Published on 14. April 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-471-31592-6 (ISBN)
Description
Fans of Vicki Cobb's unique blend of humor, science, and hands-onactivities will have tons of fun with How to Really Fool Yourself.Kids won't be able to believe their eyes--not to mention theirears, noses, hands, and tongues! Packed with all-new illustrationsand a delightful new design, this book features over 70 activitiesto fool all five senses. Each illusion is followed by a fascinating"Why You're Fooled" section that explains the science and historybehind the "magic."
* Illusions of touch, taste, hearing, smell, and sight include: theIncredible Shrinking Sugar Cube, Flavorless Coffee, Movie-StyleSound Effects, Making Circles from Straight Lines, and manymore
* The hardcover edition of How to Really Fool Yourself has sold90,000 copies
* A Main Selection of the Primary Teachers' Book Club
* Illusions of touch, taste, hearing, smell, and sight include: theIncredible Shrinking Sugar Cube, Flavorless Coffee, Movie-StyleSound Effects, Making Circles from Straight Lines, and manymore
* The hardcover edition of How to Really Fool Yourself has sold90,000 copies
* A Main Selection of the Primary Teachers' Book Club
Reviews / Votes
"Interesting, informative, and fun."--School Library Journal"Clear and lively . . . links the puzzles to scientificfact."--ALA Booklist
"Simple and direct, suitably lighthearted. . . . This unpretentiousaccount might just win over a couple of investigators of thefuture!"--Scientific American
More details
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Third Grade to Twelfth Grade, Interest Age: From 8 to 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
262 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-31592-6 (9780471315926)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Vicki Cobb is the well-known author of more than eighty-five highly entertaining nonfiction books for children.
Content
A Sense of Reality.
Weird Feelings.
Strange Sounds and a Taste for the Mysterious.
Bizarre Shapes and Sizes.
Brightness Mad and Color Crazed.
Phantom Moves.
Mirages and Other Visual Oddities.
Great Misconceptions.
Index.
Weird Feelings.
Strange Sounds and a Taste for the Mysterious.
Bizarre Shapes and Sizes.
Brightness Mad and Color Crazed.
Phantom Moves.
Mirages and Other Visual Oddities.
Great Misconceptions.
Index.