For Tick Tock Day, The Way Things Work Now by David Macaulay is a great selection. The original book was published in 1988. This book is the third revised edition, and like the original, it has humor and understandable explanations supported by illustrations and characters like the wooly mammoth. If the teen in your life loves physics or wants to understand it and our world of machines better, this book will bring hours of pleasure. Don’t be surprised if adults also find it fascinating and want to visit it again and again.
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