How it's made

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A plastic toy

Photographs and easy-to-follow text offer young readers a step-by-step overview of how plastic toys are made.
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A glass jar

2007
Full-color illustrated photographs and diagrams describe how glass is made.

A metal can

2007
Full-color photographs and easy-to-follow text offer young readers a step-by-step explanation of how metal cans are made.

Peanut butter

1994
Text and accompanying photographs describe how peanut butter is made, from the cultivation of the peanuts through filling the jars with the nutty spread. Includes simple, no-bake recipes.

Bicycles

1994
Discover how bikes have changed over the past 200 years, visit a factory and see how bikes are put together. Also learn how to make simple bike repairs.

A wooden chair

2006
Contains an overview of how a wooden chair is made, in simple text with illustrations, explaining how the wood comes from trees, is cut into planks, and assembled into chairs.

A rubber tire

2006
Contains an overview of how a rubber tire is made, in simple text with illustrations, explaining how the rubber is grown, tapped, synthesized, and heated in a mold.

A cotton T-shirt

2006
Contains an overview of how a cotton T-shirt is made, in simple text with illustrations, explaining how the cotton is grown, harvested, spun, dyed, cut, and designed.

Soda pop

1994
Text and accompanying photographs describe how the ingredients of carbonated soft drinks are made, mixed, carbonated, and bottled. Includes simple recipes for making carbonated drinks at home.

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