This is a book of not-simple stuff explained in simple words. Or, as the person who wrote this said, "the ten hundred words people use most often." It has a place in the back that tells you what those words are.
I decided to write this in the spirit of the book, so I'm also only using those ten hundred words for this. We'll see how that goes.
Thing Explainer explains a lot of things. Some of the ones I like best are:
"Shared space house" (International Space Station)
"The US's laws of the land" (US Constitution)
"Tree" (Tree)
"US Space Team's Up Goer Five" (Saturn V rocket)
(Yes, I know the things inside the bent lines aren't in the ten hundred words. The book does the same thing in the things-in-this-book page, and I felt like it would make it less confusing.)
What If and What If Two had little drawings on most of the pages. This doesn't, because its pages are full of big drawings of the stuff it's explaining. (But there are sometimes little drawings inside the big drawings.)
For some reason, the number after eight is not in the ten hundred words. I don't know why.
If this were a game for computers, I would say it was for: Everyone.
Four stars. Some of the things it explains are things to do with that belief where people think that animals turn into other animals over time and that's how all the animals got to be themselves, but it's easy to just not read those pages. If you were reading it with a small child, they could be a good thing to talk about (like, "this is what a lot of people say, here's why it's wrong.") The rest of the book is good, though.
(End note: I didn't have to look up every single word I used here in the place in the book where all the words are. The computer place for the computer pictures the person who wrote this draws has a nice little thing (or at least it did when I was writing this) where you can write things and it tells you if you used words that aren't in the ten hundred words.)
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