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Toilet how it works

Follows a tour of the bathroom and the sewer system, from the family toilets to municipal water treatment plants.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Macaulay, David (Author), Keenan, Sheila (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : David Macaulay Studio, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, 2013.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	My readers.
Subjects:	Toilets > Juvenile nonfiction. Sewage > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Follows a tour of the bathroom and the sewer system, from the family toilets to municipal water treatment plants.
Physical Description:	28 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (page 32) and index.
ISBN:	9781596437791 1596437790
Author Notes:	David Macaulay was born on December 2, 1946 in Lancashire, England, but moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey when he was 11. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Before becoming an author and illustrator, he worked as an interior designer, a junior high school teacher, and instructor of interior design at RISD from 1969 to 1973. His first book, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, was published in 1973. His other books include City, Castle, Pyramid, Mill, Underground, Mosque, The Way Things Work, Rome Antics, Shortcut,and How Machines Work. He has received numerous awards including a Caldecott Honor Medal in 1991 for Black and White and the Washington Children's Book Guild Award for a Body of Non-Fiction Work in 1977. He won the Royal Society young people¿s book prize for the best science books for children for his book How Machines Work. (Bowker Author Biography)