This book is so stupid and you'll never ever ever use anything in it. What a joke! I wish I had read the other reviews before I wasted the 4 bucks I spent on it. Live and learn I guess.

These books have gotten better and better. Nothing to sit down and read in front of the fire on a cold evening, but fun to pick up and flip through every now and again.

The coolest thing in this book was that dollar bills have metal threads and are slightly magnetic. Now you can skip the entire book!

I'm not sure why some readers don't seem to understand that Cy Tymony obviously wrote this book series for kids. Boys, most likely, under the age of 10 or 11.

An audience of that age will find this book quite interesting, like its prequel. I'll repeat, if you've got a Ph.D. in physics, don't buy it. And if you considered the idea, do tell us, how'd you get that Ph.D., again?

The point of this book is to set kids along a discovery path---to find capabilities in everyday objects they might not otherwise have recognized, to think outside the box.

And while not all the suggestions here provide the least bit of interest to an adult, I don't get why anyone would have bought this book expecting to reap a science degree from it. For Pete's sake! This title, like that of Tymony's first book, is also a dead giveaway.

If this book were published by Brown Paper School, like The Book of Think: Or, How to Solve a Problem Twice Your Size, it would also have five stars from all customer reviewers. All right, so Tymony should have labeled the book "for kids" for the dim witted among us. But otherwise, it too deserves 5 stars.

Kids get a big kick out of making something from nothing. Once upon a time, a child could be happy with an old Quaker Oats box as a drum.

In this age when most electronic gadgets hail from China, it's nice to find an author suggesting constructive toys for curious kids.

It teaches them how to look at and listen to the world around them, even if the stuff they make from this book is otherwise "useless."

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