Details

Subject(s)

• Science—Experiments—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Picture books for children [Browse]

Illustrator

• Carpenter, Nancy [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Humorous fiction [Browse]

Summary note

A young child tries a series of wacky experiments, such as seeing if a piece of bologna will fly like a frisbee and determining whether seedlings will grow if watered with expensive perfume, and then must suffer the consequences of experiments gone awry.

Target audience

Ages 4-8.

Awards

Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year (2012); Kirkus Starred Review (15 August 2011).

Binding note

Pub. color-printed pictorial boards with matching dust jacket and color-printed pictorial endpapers.

Participant(s)/​Performer(s)

Pictures by Nancy Carpenter.

Source acquisition

Princeton copy 1 Gift; Andrea Immel; 2024.

Other title(s)

Eleven experiments that failed

ISBN

• 9780375847622
• 0375847626
• 9780375957628 ((glb))
• 0375957626 ((glb))
• 9780375983849 ((ebk.))
• 0375983848 ((ebk.))

LCCN

2009045096

OCLC

482553065

International Article Number

• 9780375847622

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