mobiles (sculpture)

Constructions and experiments with different toys and mobiles introduce the basic principles of balancing.

Instructions for making three basic kinds of mobiles--string, base, and wire--and other mobile projects from household materials.

Features step-by-step photographic instructions for twenty mobiles, and includes lists of materials and templates.

When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.