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A simple picture book with lots of creativity. The set up is repetitive: girl asks boy how something works, boy thinks, and comes up with comical and creative answers. Great book to share with a group of preschoolers or early elementary grades. This book screams extension activities as it would be very easy to gather a list of other "things" and have students comes up with their own answers as to how each "thing" works.
This book is mansplaining in a nutshell and it’s so troubling. A girl asks a boy how things work, and he comes up with wild explanations. While this is fun, it’s so troubling that the girl doesn’t respond with how silly this is but simply says, “Wow!” My kids (2 and 5) loved this book, AND I had to do a lot of work as a reader to 1) show how the girl was actually more clever than the boy, and 2) say how silly the explanations were and how that is not at all how these things work. This book won i...
The illustrations are boldly amusing, but I personally didn't care for the story, which really isn't a story. However, when I read this aloud to a special-needs class, it elicited raucous laughter from a student who often is unresponsive, and her peers were more attentive than I expected.
Very funny and inventive picture book. I love the inquisitive nature of the little girl and the imagination of the little boy. His creative answers to the question of "how does a ____ work?" were awesome. I learned a lot about airplanes, steamrollers and trains. I had no idea that an octopus twisted a whale to power a freighter. I especially love how the little girl turns the tables and shows the boy how a bicycle works at the end. Very good read.
Christoph Niemann has presented a few silly illustrations in his book That’s How! as a girl asks a young boy how different things work. In response to her questions, the readers see bright, colorful pictures of how the boy imagines these things working. The text of this funny story is simple and bold for young children. This is a good book to open a conversation with children who are starting to wonder and ask how things work.
A young girl asks a boy how various machines work. "How does a train work?" The boy thinks about it for a few seconds and comes up with a totally unrealistic idea, pronouncing "That's how!" The girl, impressed, responds with "Wow!" Frankly, I was a little annoyed that the girl asked the questions, the boy gave ridiculous answers, and the girl was impressed. Fortunately, the ending makes up for what seems to be stereotypes. The girl proudly demonstrates how a bicycle works, connecting the boy's a...
108/365Very cute.
I couldn't resist this punchy picture book by Christoph Niemann, the same artist who brought us Subway last year, which made my "Top Picture Books from The Year of the Tiger" list.Just tested this out on our friend C's four year old and, man, it was a hit. He loves all things that go and is very mechanically inclined--so we wondered whether he might object to the "unreality" of these answers. Nope, he burst out giggling at every page, and it was music to hear him explain how each picture worked....
A little girl asks a boy how different vehicles/machines work, and he gives her explanations based on animals inside the machines. For example, a boat works because there's a whale and an octopus inside, powering it. A digger works because one animal (I can't remember which one) is holding an alligator by the tail, and the alligator is biting the ground. An airplane is powered by a half-dozen birds flying around inside. What about a bicycle? How does that work? Well, of course, it's powered by a...
The concept behind this short picture book involves a boy and a girl passing certain objects and imagining how they work. The girl keeps asking the boy, and the boy provides a far-out, animal-based explanation. The illustrations of what the boy imagines are cute and funny, but there's something disturbing about the fact that the girl cannot imagine anything on her own and has to keep asking the boy. The illustrations are like a simplified version of J. otto Seibold's work (Olive, the Other Reind...
Children, and adults too, wonder how things work. Here a little girl asks how things work and a little boy uses his imagination to come up with the answers. A steamroller works because inside of it is a parrot tickling two bears who roll with laughter. A train works because a bunch of monkeys run on a treadmill toward a big pot of soup. And on and on go the creative answers to "How?" I was annoyed that it was always the little girl asking How and the little boy answering, until I got to the end....
A young boy and girl encounter various forms of transportation or construction vehicles. The little girl asks how each vehicle works, the little boy thinks about it and the next page reveals how it works. Sort of. Readers will encounter a lion driving a truck, a flock of chickens flying an airplane and many other ridiculous answers to how something works.Finally the young girl exclaims she knows how a bicycle works and demonstrates how... the correct way.A humorous tale great for one-on-one read...
This is very kid-funny and adult-clever. My sons liked the obvious silliness. I liked the simple text that made it easy for them to "read" it. I also liked the subtle touches, like how the colors change from scene to scene, with the kids in pink shirts, or brown shirts or yellow shirts.One word of warning-- it's not a great bed time book, since the silliness keyes up the audience and demands they re-read it. But probably good for class visits.
