Fooled Ya! by Jordan D Brown
Wise up with this fun-filled, activity-packed, eye-opening kid's guide to neuroscience and psychology. Discover how our brain can trick us and avoid being hoodwinked, hornswoggled, swindled, or bamboozled.Can you trust your brain 100 percent 24/7? Not always, and Brown presents a fascinating, often hilarious romp of uncovering what the brain is, what it does and how it can fool us.
Prepare to be dazzled with cool optical illusions and fun experiments to try. Learn how magicians trick your brain, how to spot con artists, liars and other scammers. The list goes on and on. Brown explains how all of this happens in a super-kid-friendly way using language that will appeal to readers/listeners.
Funny, informative and very clever, Fooled Ya! will have kids thinking about their brains in a whole new way and become, in the process, better critical thinkers. - Kendal Rautzhan for readingeagle.com
This is a great book for patrons who represent a niche audience: kids who are into magic. Not Harry Potter and fantasy stuff, but real magic-card tricks, mind reading, and ventriloquism. An added benefit is that the brain science that goes into fooling audiences-the neurological, sensory, physical, and psychological influences that make illusions possible-is seamlessly folded in. Step-by-step instructions for card tricks and intriguing exercises with optical illusions are intermingled with examples of instances where brain manipulation and psychological trickery come in handy: advertising, undercover police work, notorious con artists, hoaxes, mediums, and even professional sports hype. Immensely entertaining, the graphic-rich pages feature considerable chunks of text and numerous sidebars. - Kathleen McBroom for Booklist Online Exclusive
Jordan D. Brown's works include Micro Mania and Crazy Concoctions. He has served as Educational Consultant for a variety of preschool children's television shows, including The Mr. Men Show (Cartoon Network), Dinosaur Train (PBS), My Friend Rabbit (NBC), and Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends (Nickelodeon). His clients include Sesame Workshop, Time for Kids, and Thirteen/WNET. He has written many articles for the American Museum of Natural History's kids' website, OLogy. He lives in upstate New York.
Emily Bornoff is a children's picture book designer, writer and illustrator working in traditional print-making techniques including lithography, screenprinting, intaglio and relief. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Art's famous Children's Book Illustration programme, she is now focused on creating new children's picture books and prints.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781633221581 |
| ISBN 10 | 163322158X |
| Title | Fooled Ya! |
| Author | Jordan D Brown |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc |
| Year published | 2017-09-14 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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