Everything I Know about Cars

A Collection of Made-up Facts, Educated Guesses, and Silly Pictures about Cars, Trucks, and Other Zoomy Things

By Lichtenheld, Tom

Publishers Summary:
The author offers a caveat at the beginning of the book: "I don't know much about real cars, but I'm an expert on made-up cars, so this book is a big traffic jam of mostly made-up cars." He recounts a history of cars that involves prehistoric cavemen, ancient Egyptians, Vikings, and two horses named Winnie and Nay.

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ISBN
978-0-68984-382-2
Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2005.


REVIEWS

School Library Journal

Reviewed on May 1, 2005

Gr 1-4 Like Lichtenheld's "Everything I Know about Monsters" (S & S, 2002), this pseudo-nonfiction book presents a wealth of made-up stuff. It's chock-full of fun fake facts about automobiles, such as "Red cars are the fastest kind" and horses invented cars (hence the term horsepower). Other sections focus on the history of motor travel (beginning with cavemen putting steering wheels on animals), how cars work ("the transmission -&trans...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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