thing explainer: the book

In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer Five, using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words. Explore computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use to steer a plane (airliner cockpit controls), and the little bags of water you're made of (cells).

out now from publishers worldwide!

United States & Canada | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

November 24th, 2015

available to order from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound, Hudson, Books-a-Million

UK & Commonwealth | John Murra

24 November 2015

available to order from Amazon.co.uk, Waterstones

German| Knaus Verlag

24 November 2015

available for order from Randomhouse and Amazon.de

Dutch | Spectrum

24 November 2015

available to order from Bol.com

Swedish | Volante

24 November 2015

available to order from Adlibris and Bokus

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