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Toilet: How It Works

Toilet: How It Works( )
Author: Macaulay, David
Keenan, Sheila
Series title:How It Works
ISBN:978-1-62672-215-6
Publication Date:Apr 2015
Publisher:Square Fish
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $9.99
Book Description:

Celebrated author-illustrator and master explainer David Macaulay brings his unique voice and style to high-interest nonfiction books for newly independent readers. Everyone knows what a toilet is for, right? But what exactly happens after you flush? Where does our waste go, and how is it made safe? With his unique blend of informative text and illustration, David Macaulay takes readers on a tour of the bathroom and the sewer system, from the familiar family toilet to the...
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Book Details
Pages:32
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.72 x 9.85 x 0.18 Inches
Book Weight:0.242 Pounds
Author Biography
Macaulay, David (Author)
David Macaulay was born on December 2, 1946 in Lancashire, England, but moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey when he was 11. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Before becoming an author and illustrator, he worked as an interior designer, a junior high school teacher, and instructor of interior design at RISD from 1969 to 1973.

His first book, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, was published in 1973. His other books include City, Castle, Pyramid, Mill, Underground, Mosque, The Way Things Work, Rome Antics, Shortcut,and How Machines Work. He has received numerous awards including a Caldecott Honor Medal in 1991 for Black and White and the Washington Children's Book Guild Award for a Body of Non-Fiction Work in 1977. He won the Royal Society young people¿s book prize for the best science books for children for his book How Machines Work.

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