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The Interactive Constitution: Explore the Constitution with Flaps, Wheels, Color-Changing Words, and More!
Book 1 in The Interactive Explorer
- Subject
- Social Science - Politics & Government
- Age
- 6-8 years
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 16
- Publisher
- Bushel & Peck Books
- Size
- 26.2 cm × 26.2 cm
- ISBN
- 9781733633529
Turn curiosity into understanding with hands-on journeys through history, science, and beyond.
Discover our democracy's central document is this fun and interactive book with flaps, wheels, color-changing words, and more!
A 2021 NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book
Finalist, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards: The Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book
Explore the U.S. Constitution like never before! Amazing interactive features like color-changing words, flaps, wheels, and a special vocabulary decoder help kids learn about types of government, checks and balances, the Bill of Rights, the amendment process, and more! There's never been a better way—or a more important time—to discover the world-changing importance of this powerful founding document.
“In cheery infographic-style illustrations and chatty but succinct prose, Miles and Pinilla have boiled down the basics of the U.S. Constitution without shortchanging history or legal tradition….Both history geeks and casual students should easily ratify this one.”—Publishers Weekly
Explore the U.S. Constitution like never before! Amazing interactive features like color-changing words, flaps, wheels, and a special vocabulary decoder help kids learn about types of government, checks and balances, the Bill of Rights, the amendment process, and more.
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What reviewers said
In cheery infographic-style illustrations and chatty but succinct prose, Miles and Pinilla have boiled down the basics of the U.S. Constitution without shortchanging history or legal tradition. While touch-and-feel approximations of parchment and the like feel a bit young for the recommended age, the rest of the interactive features are fine examples of information engineering, like the Advent calendar–style pull-up flaps that reveal every U.S. president and a key quote, and a preamble “decoder” that translates the Founders’ highfalutin’ prose into everyday speech (“tranquility” becomes…
—Publishers Weekly, Publishers Weekly
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