Product Description: Before a product ever reaches store shelves, it first has to be made. Learn about the steps of production in How Do They Make That? This series uses exciting images and easy-to-read text to show young readers how raw materials are turned into the finished products that people buy...read more

Product Description: Following on from the hugely successful Stick Book, The Pencil Book is packed full of ideas for things to make and do with a pencil. It provides a starting point for an active imagination and brings together drawing, creating, picture making, adventures, craft, games and play...read more

Product Description: The main focus of the How are they Made? Series is turning raw materials into products through mass or smallscale production.

Product Description: You probably use a pencil almost every day. Did you know that the 'lead' in pencil is really a mineral called graphite? And that China and Mexico are two countries with large graphite deposits? Read this book to learn more about how pencils are manufactured and how they end up in the hands of people in countries around the globe...read more

Details the design and construction of pencils from start to finish, and discusses where in the world the necessary wood, rubber, and lead are manufactured.

Details the design and construction of pencils from start to finish, and discusses where in the world the necessary wood, rubber, and lead are manufactured.

Describes how a pencil is manufactured, distributed, and used.

Text and photographs show, from start to finish, how colored pencils are made in a factory.

Describes the process by which graphite becomes a pencil from the making of the graphite to the way it is encased in cedar and topped with an eraser.