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Accidents May Happen
Accidents May Happen
Charlotte Jones
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
, 1998 - 96 pages
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From Wheaties to telephones, microwave ovens to yo-yos, here are the inspiring and often funny stories of 50 mistakes and misunderstandings that helped bring about life as we know it. With hilarious cartoons and wacky facts, this fascinating compendium illustrates the adage "If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them."
Fifty amazing inventions with interesting explaination.
I read this book and I found some amazing things behind the inventions which are now fads. As the yo-yo is a really cool thing around it used to be a weapon and then it accidently turned into a toy for children. You
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think that Nursery Rhymes are not very cool, but the cool part in Nursery Rhymes are stories of old history. For example, Ring Aroud The Rosey used to be a poem about a disease that killed people in the old times. The first line, "Ring Around The Rosey," used to be one of the symptoms of the disease which was a rosey rash on the person's body. "A pocket full of posies," was flowers that would supposedly keeep evil away for the human. The next line, "Ashes, Ashes," was "A-tishoo, a-tishoo," which they would need because they sneezed a ton. "We all fall down," was the last thing that
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ed to the people that got this, they would fall on to their bed and die. There is the thing behind,"Ring Around The Rosey." There are many other cool inventions in that story and all of them are great. I really liked the book.
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Accidents May Happen
Accidents
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is a wonderful book, full of facts about the origins of some of our most commonly used items. Everything in this book has one thing in common - thay were invented by mistake! This book by Carlotte Jones is truly amazing, jam-packed with interesting facts. Who would have thought Ring-around-the-rosie was about the plague? Or that cheese was invented by an Arabian traver, on the back of a camel? Anyone who likes fun facts would enjoy this book. Accidents May Happen is definitaly a good read.
Laura
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