[objclxt]

> All of my kids spent hours pouring over a book we had called 'The Way Things Work' with a delightfully funny Mammoth and a good description of how things actually work

I grew up with this book - I have vivid memories still of the pages about a nuclear reactor - and I was pleasantly surprised to visit a bookshop recently and find it still in print, updated with new things like LIDAR, 3D Printers, MoCap, etc.

[detourdog]

The author David Macaulay taught illustration at my college. His original series started with buildings like “Castle”. The way things work was a breakout hit.

[freeone3000]

I was also a childhood lover of Castle and Vikings :)

[detourdog]

Those books were captivating and I was really surprised when I showed up at College and met the source.

[ambicapter]

This book is probably 90% of my understanding of how why so many transistors can add up to a CPU, and I didn't learn any programming for a good ten years after I pored through that book as a kid (for me it was "The new way things work", updated for the computer age).

[gizajob]

It’s cloudy now but I think I also remember hours spent in a CD-ROM version of that book.

Bring back CD-ROMs.

[ChuckMcM]

It is a great book. Very accessible and a great way to engage with your kids.

[mmusc]

Yup it's my 6yo favourite book.