Business 101—simple, with a good measure of excitement and motivational verve.
Tools for becoming an entrepreneur, a kid entrepreneur.
Cuban, Patel, and McCue have put together here both a guide and a workbook to entrepreneurship. “Any kid that starts a business to make money is an entrepreneur” (from the French entreprendre, readers learn, which means to undertake). The authors are all about action: Ideas are great, but selling those ideas is the rub. They chart out characteristics of successful entrepreneurs—hardworking, enthusiastic, creative, flexible, motivated—which are good traits for any kid in any endeavor, but entrepreneurs also have to be ready to fail, as the way of the entrepreneur is full of risk. The whole idea is to create something of value that people are willing to buy to solve a problem or fulfill a need. They then give umpteen examples of things people could have use for, from duct-tape wallets to social media sites, and encourage readers to delve into any chosen product and make the very best one that you can. The trick here is to get excited enough to put thought into action, and the authors rev up the enthusiasm, provide lots of tips and ideas, and stress that even failures have their uses, as in not repeating them. Plus, starting as a kid allows you to fail and not face financial disaster, as parents are great backstops
Business 101—simple, with a good measure of excitement and motivational verve. (Nonfiction. 9-13)Pub Date: Aug. 14, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-63576-472-7
Page Count: 80
Publisher: Diversion Books
Review Posted Online: June 24, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 2018
Far from comprehensive but visually arresting and, at times, provocative.
Stylized graphics rendered in saturated hues set this quick overview of body systems apart from the general run.
Arranged in tabbed and color-coded sections, the tour covers familiar ground but often from an unusual angle. The tally of human senses at the beginning, for instance, includes “proprioception” (physical multitasking), and ensuing chapters on the skeletal, circulatory and other systems are capped with a miscellany of body contents and products—from selected parasites and chemicals to farts and sweat. Likewise, descriptions of a dozen physical components of the “Brain Box” are followed by notes on more slippery mental functions like “Consciousness” and “Imagination.” The facts and observations gathered by Rogers are presented as labels or captions. They are interspersed on each spread with flat, eye-dazzling images designed by Grundy not with anatomical correctness in mind but to show processes or relationships at a glance. Thus, to show body parts most sensitive to touch, a silhouette figure sports an oversized hand and foot, plus Homer Simpson lips (though genitals are absent, which seems overcautious as an explicit section on reproduction follows a few pages later), and a stack of bathtubs illustrates the quantity of urine the average adult produces in an average lifetime (385 bathtubs’ worth). There is no backmatter.
Far from comprehensive but visually arresting and, at times, provocative. (Nonfiction. 11-13)Pub Date: Aug. 26, 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7636-7123-5
Page Count: 80
Publisher: Big Picture/Candlewick
Review Posted Online: April 29, 2014
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 15, 2014
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The busyness of the endeavor turns it into a turkey shoot, where luck—more than skill—is the likelier factor in making a...
An effort at making sense of big numbers, with digressions into the history and various fields of mathematics.
Really big numbers are, for the most part, either vexing or comical, meaningless or all about effect. Huggins-Cooper’s hinge is Rubik’s Cube, the plastic puzzle that has frustrated gazillions. “The numbers start to get really big when you look at all the different ways the cubes can be arranged. And that’s when you will discover just how big 43 quintillion is.” The brief forays into the history of math and mathematicians are straightforward; readers “discover” something about zero, place value and the decimal system, Pythagoras, Al Khwarizmi and Fibonacci, endlessness and absence. The speed of light comes into focus, and the Ishango Bone, possibly the first evidence of counting (on a baboon’s leg, at that), is a hoot of a mystery. But other attempts at revelation fall short: “Think about 1,000,000 miles—that’s almost the distance to the moon and back, two times,” while the accompanying artwork depicts more than two times. “The ‘golden ratio’ is a special number” is too airy by half, and the relationship of the radius to the circumference, Pi, is again trumped by its illustration, which appears to show a 1-yard radius producing a circumference of 3.14 yards.
The busyness of the endeavor turns it into a turkey shoot, where luck—more than skill—is the likelier factor in making a point. (Nonfiction. 9-13)Pub Date: Sept. 1, 2014
ISBN: 978-1-60992-628-1
Page Count: 80
Publisher: QEB Publishing
Review Posted Online: July 15, 2014
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 2014
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