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My kids love "The Cartoon History of the World" (read first two books, want
me to order the third) and today when I was looking him up on Amazon I noticed
a lot of other books by him. Cartoon Guide to Physics, Chemistry, Genetics,
Environmentalism, Sex, etc. Does anyone have any of these and do you (and your
kids) like them?

What other non-textbook fun type books do you have and like? I'm thinking of
stuff like the Dummies Guides, or the "I Hate Mathematics" book. My kids
love these type of things and I'd love to make a lot of them available this year.

Nancy B.


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In a message dated 8/16/2004 9:11:30 AM Central Standard Time,
CelticFrau@... writes:

My kids love "The Cartoon History of the World" (read first two books, want
me to order the third) and today when I was looking him up on Amazon I
noticed
a lot of other books by him. Cartoon Guide to Physics, Chemistry,
Genetics,
Environmentalism, Sex, etc. Does anyone have any of these and do you (and
your
kids) like them?



~~~

I like them. Got both Physics and Genetics at garage sales. No one else
here has picked them up.

Karen


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Elizabeth Hill

**Cartoon Guide to Physics,**

There's a computer-game version of this book available, or there was.
(We have it, but I don't remember my son playing it.)

Betsy

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In a message dated 8/16/04 8:11:22 AM, CelticFrau@... writes:

<< Cartoon Guide to Physics, Chemistry, Genetics,
Environmentalism, Sex, etc. Does anyone have any of these and do you (and
your
kids) like them? >>

I have physics, and read part of genetics at someone else's house.

My kids haven't discovered them. If someone needed to study physics I'd
surely point it out to him or her.

I didn't know about the other two, and might look through them at a store
sometime.

Sandra

pam sorooshian

On Aug 16, 2004, at 7:07 AM, CelticFrau@... wrote:

> My kids love "The Cartoon History of the World" (read first two books,
> want
> me to order the third) and today when I was looking him up on Amazon I
> noticed
> a lot of other books by him. Cartoon Guide to Physics, Chemistry,
> Genetics,
> Environmentalism, Sex, etc. Does anyone have any of these and do you
> (and your
> kids) like them?
>
Cartoon Guide to Statistics has the same content as a statistics
textbook would have - it is high level stuff - college level. Good book
- I like it and recommend it for statistics.

> What other non-textbook fun type books do you have and like?

There is a whole series of "Brown Paper School" books -- Marilyn Burns
wrote some of them and worked with a group of authors who wrote others.
I like all of them - we've had fun with most over the years:
Marilyn Burns: The I Hate Mathematics Book, The Book of Think or How to
Solve a Problem Twice Your Size, Good for Me, This Book is About Time.
Jamie Jobb: The Night Sky Book.
Linda Allison: The Reason for the Seasons: The Great Cosmic
Megagalactic Trip Without Moving from your Chair, Blood and Guts: A
Working Guide to Your Own Insides.
David Weitzman: My Backyard History Book
Tom Walther: Make Mine Music.



We all also really really liked the "Horrible History" series of books
- the ones by Terry Deary - "The Vile Victorians" and so on.

-pam
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