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A review by hainyh
Engineered!: Engineering Design at Work by Shannon Hunt
3.0
This is a great book for a child that has a specific interest in engineering, or the way things work, but I think this would not interest anyone without that interest, as it is very clearly targeting quite a specific niche.
There is a lot of information crammed onto each page (some pages easier to read than others, due to text size, background colour, and minimal spacing between lines of text). However, this is also works to an advantage, as there's a lot to take in on each page, with full pages of busy geometric-style illustrations. Each time you look at the images you'll be sure to find something different!
There is a helpful glossary at the end, which is useful to look back on if necessary, as there certainly is a lot of information to take in.
To summarise, if this book was given to someone with this interest in mind, it would be a 4*. The pages are so busy that this may be off-putting to some. To others without the engineering interest, I don't think it would hold a child's attention for very long. Therefore, overall I'd give this 3*.
There is a lot of information crammed onto each page (some pages easier to read than others, due to text size, background colour, and minimal spacing between lines of text). However, this is also works to an advantage, as there's a lot to take in on each page, with full pages of busy geometric-style illustrations. Each time you look at the images you'll be sure to find something different!
There is a helpful glossary at the end, which is useful to look back on if necessary, as there certainly is a lot of information to take in.
To summarise, if this book was given to someone with this interest in mind, it would be a 4*. The pages are so busy that this may be off-putting to some. To others without the engineering interest, I don't think it would hold a child's attention for very long. Therefore, overall I'd give this 3*.