Customer Reviews
A Digital Book Not a True CD Rom At All - By: JESS, 02 May 2006 
This is a trawl of text only diagrams. All fascinating facts & excellent drawings but dead in terms of encouraging further searching & reading. The opening of the disc is great & there are some great (very short!) 'movies' of the woolly mammoths in various scrapes. Yet, once you've watched these the following questions are cold & boring, in our sons' opinions. You type in the answer. A little farty sound if you're wrong & a cheerful ting if right. Not very exciting. If you can't think of the exact wording or spell it exactly you get the farty sound! (actuallly, that's quite a good bit!) New searches just reveal more pages of illustrations as you expect to see them in a book. There are lots of links to other things of related interest. But, again, another diagram & text only.
Big shame! My sons love the television show behind this. It reallly is excellent. But, if it's between buying this CD Rom or the book, by the same name, definitely just get the book.
Query! - By: hayley thomas, 07 Nov 2005 
This looks good but - Can anyone help - will The New Way Things Work CD run on a Windows XP platform?
Not just a book for children but also for inquisitive adults - By: , 10 Sep 2001 
This book is a nice gift for someone who likes to know how things work. The illustrations are entertaining & the digital section is also very informative. Probably a good book for parents with children who ask "why?"a lot of the time!
It works in my classroom - By: michael_murray44@hotmail.com, 10 Apr 2001 
This is an excellent piece of software. It can be used for whole class demonstration, smalll group exploration or extended exercises to stretch better pupils. I have also used it to enable pupils who have been absent to catch up.
