The Fort on Fourth Street: A Story About the Six Simple Machines (Arbordale Collection)

Great read aloud with the children at after school care. The story line and pictures were engaging, and the introduction of simple machines and their use was excellent.

I bought this for my grandchildren. Wonderful story! I love all the projects! Great learning tool with an engaging story!! Love it!! A+

Writing not stellar but the message got across. When we finished the granddaughter could name all the simple machines and spent the rest of the day going around naming them.

This is a wonderful book explaining the six simple machines. It is a super teaching book with a good story line. There are great examples given with good illustrations. Love the ending!

Having "struggled" through my introduction to physics in high school, I bought this book for my grand niece. She grasped the concepts with ease and quickly turned to the activity section of the book. I believe that she will be one young lady better prepared for her first introduction into physics. We both enjoyed this book!

Bought this for my 5 year old students and was very happy with the size of the book ,slightly larger than a typical paperback book, will be great for circle time. Great story to show practical use of the simple machines with enough repetition that they can remember it.

Cute story with surprise ending

Great! good shipper

This is a great book when teaching a combined grade 1 and 2 in Ontario as the science curriculum is different for each grade. It helps overlap simple machines with structures.

Excellent book on the use of the six simple machines to build a fort and the use of rhyme throughout is an added bonus!!!! I highly recommend it for young readers.