Children solve problems effortlessly, their ideas may often be impractical but they produce them with a fluency, zest and irrepressible imagination that ought to be the envy of many an adult and especially those who are paid to solve difficult problems. Nevertheless it is primarily as an insight into the processes of the mind that this book offers a collection of children's thinking. The nine tasks the children where set included, devising a machine to weigh elephants, a system for building a house quickly, a sleep machine, a space rocket, improvements to the human body and methods of helping the police deal with bad men. Each task was carefully chosen to involve the children in coping with problems of a distinct character.
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Seller: Great Books&Cafe @ The Williamsford Mill, Williamsford, ON, Canada
Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 227 pp. With b&w illustrations by children. Light edgewear, spine very lightly yellowed, light surface scratching, light blue marking on rear cover near spine, else a very good copy. "The nine tasks the children were set included a machine to weigh elephants, a system for building a house quickly, a sleep machine, a space rocket, improvements to the human body, and methods of helping police deal with bad men.". Seller Inventory # 006151