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Overview
Explore the functions of levers, wheels, and pulleys, and learn how to lift a lion, pull a panda, and deliver a basket of bananas to a baboon birthday party!
Provides a simple introduction to the use of levers, pulleys, and wheels to move heavy objects.
Synopsis
Explore the functions of levers, wheels, and pulleys, and learn how to lift a lion, pull a panda, and deliver a basket of bananas to a baboon birthday party!
Children's Literature
This book aims to introduce some of the theories of physics to very young readers. The concepts are those of gravity, leverage, friction, and pulleys. Each is accompanied by some physical problem involving animals. For example, the book starts out by asking how one might lift a lion. Answer: put him on a platform and use a lever. Then, if one wants to lift more lions, one would need a longer lever. This is a clever little book, with nice pictures.