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When I was a kid about that age I was given a copy of The Way Things Work by David Macaulay https://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473 It's a great introduction to a lot of the fundamentals of how a broad swath of machines, technologies, and processes work, and it's illustrated with mammoths which is what held my attention as a child.

It's admittedly not interactive and my parents had to read it to me at first, but as I grew up with it I learned more and more from it and eventually grew up to become a chemical engineer.

Turns out the one I was looking for was an updated version of the book called The new way things work, but you helped me find it anyway.

Older version was one of my favorite books as a child. Got few others on electricity, lasers, optics and such specifically. Best... thing...ever! Sparked my interest in, well, everything :)

since there are many many awesome books already up. Im going to vote for The Way Things Work as the absolute best book you can give to a child. this book is probably single handedly responsible for why people think im smart because i can fix basic machinery. i spent many a night reading it, still have it and hope to pass it on one day.

I love this idea. However, I can't think of any that I know of aside from ones that I find through Googling "kids science magazines." I do, however, know a pretty neat book that I read as a child that really opened my mind to the way things worked (I assume this newer version is just as good). From what I remember, it doesn't really delve into stuff like religion, but satisfies that curiosity every kid probably had at one point regarding the why of everything. I can't say that this is what made me become as scientifically-minded as I am now, but I can say that this was a start.

Also your nephew will develop a strange love for mammoths.

the 3 people above me should do themselves a favor and get this book

I'm serious. I remember loving The New Way Things Work and Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections as a kid and they were so important to me growing up, I suppose I thought everybody had that formative experience. As I get older, one of the things I think I look forward to most about having kids is being able to read books like that with them. The joy of learning how the world works through beautiful illustrations is something you lose as an adult, you know?

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Discovering physical reality through Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words or What If has got to be better than just not thinking about those things or thinking they're magic, right? Learning how zippers work is so much more exciting for a kid than just knowing pulling the tab up or down makes it open or close, I thought more people had that experience.

This? New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

The New Way Things Work

Soy muy afortunado por haberme tropezado con este libro cuando era chico.

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The New Way Things Work

Can't resist adding a few book suggestions - he's a bit young but I think you two would enjoy looking through something like David MacAulay's Way Things Work. A book of science questions and answers might be fun too, like How Come? or National Geographic's Why?; there's an equivalent for younger kids too but sounds like you guys might prefer the big kids version. Mistakes that Worked is another great book.

Gotta get 'em this book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473

Someone mentioned this one to me; The Way Things Work

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1D5PAH7X04JQNKQ0DQD9

for me it was this minus the 'new'

Here’s my book, I still have it.

I recently bought the updated version after seeing a post like this a while ago. Here is a link to Amazon.

The New Way Things Work, because woolly mammoths are awesome

The New Way Things Work

The <em>New</em> Way Things Work, guaranteed useful in case of The Hot Fudge Sundae that falls on a Tuesdae.

http://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473 The earlier edition of this?

Does 1998 count as new?

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473

I guess we need a "The Newer Way Things Work".