Why Can't You Unscramble an Egg?

by Ted Enik and Vicki Cobb

Why do images of entertainers abound in European literature and art since Romanticism? From Baudelaire to Picasso, from Daumier to Fellini, mimes, clowns, aerialists, and jesters recur in major works by continental artists. In Art as Spectacle , Naomi Ritter investigates this phenomenon and offers explanations that transcend the array of works discussed. Her analysis implies much about the triangle of creator, work, and audience that inevitably controls...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525672931
• ISBN13: 9780525672937
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
• Length: 4 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Science Questions + Easy Experiements = Tons of Fun

Vicki Cobb is the reigning queen of the fun-with-science genre. From Bet You Can and Bet You Can't to Science Experiments You Can Eat, Ms. Cobb dependably offers easy experiments that will spark the scientist in everyone. However, measured by her usual standard, Why Can't You Unscramble an Egg? is a little heavy on explanation and exposition and somewhat light on experiments. Nevertheless, Ms. Cobb understands her audience very well, peppering her text with enough "Eww, Gross... tell me more" to keep her readers engaged and excited to know what's coming next. (For example, a section on air pressure concludes with, "If you were suddenly put in a vacuum, your inside pressure would make you swell up until you burst like a balloon.") Ted Enik's humorous illustrations enhance the text, and together they clearly and successfully answer many of the "not so dumb questions about matter," like Why does an Ice Cube Float? and Why Isn't the Earth Egg-shaped or a Cube?

GREAT (OOP) BOOK!

I ENJOYED THIS MYSELF... HAD FUN READING IT TO MY KIDS... NEAT EXPLANATIONS... COULD HAVE HAD BETTER ILLUSTRATIONS... BUT IS NOW ONE OF OUR FAV'S