The Unbelievable Bubble Book [Paperback]

John Cassidy (Author), David Stein (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Book and Bubble

A celebration of the simple soap bubble. Equal parts science and fun. this book also includes instructions for using the attached bubble maker to create six foot rainbow bubbles. We don't call it unbelievable for nothing.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 78 pages
• Publisher: Klutz Press (November 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932592155
• ISBN-13: 978-0932592156
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1.4 x 12.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #863,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bubbling with enthusiasm!, July 26, 2000

By 

Jerry F. Laffey "Strange in his own Write" (Diamond Bar, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Unbelievable Bubble Book (Paperback)

I'm over 50 years old and, while visiting my Mother, I started playing with some bubble making toys she had left out for the kids. Bored, I started making some make-shift bubble wands out of coat hangers to see how big a bubble I could make. It was a lot of fun but, because of the bubble solution, I was limited to bubbles of about a foot in diameter.

I went on line to try and search out some "secret" bubble solution formulas and was eventually directed to "The Bubble Thing" book. The price was right so I bought it. I did not know at the time that it came with a "Bubble Thing". My God!...I was making these HUGE bubbles in my living room, four and five feet across before my wife walked in and stopped me. (She's not my boss or anything. I'm the Boss in my home, PERIOD!...I know this because she said I could be!)

Anyway, everywhere I go with my "Bubble Thing", I'm the undisputed center of attention. Kids and Big Kids, like me, go nuts over this thing! It's amazing and incredibly fun. I've had to order two more books so that I don't go without everytime it's "borrowed" by my neighbors and friends...you know, to show their kids. ;)

This book is the best ten bucks you'll ever spend! Kudo's to it's author and inventor of the "Bubble Thing"! If you were to get paid a buck for every smile or shriek of laughter and delight created by your invention, Bill Gates would have to leave town.

Many thanks,

Jerry

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring Fun, February 12, 2000

By 

Terry Rolf Weber (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Unbelievable Bubble Book (Paperback)

I bought this book about a year ago to play with while my 3 year old daughter blew bubbles outside. To let you know how great this is, I have purchased about 6 of these over the last year to share with kids or young at heart. Everyone thinks this thing is great!

One word of caution--you will make such big bubbles that you are likely to cause an automobile accident or be mobbed at the park!

Kids find this thing totally irresistable--sure to draw a crowd and definitely get your neigbors attention. Thanks David Stein and John Cassidy for bringing us some good clean fun!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy the book and the Bubble Thing!, January 30, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Unbelievable Bubble Book (Paperback)

This book, the Unbelievable Bubble Book, is about a toy that produces the biggest soap blown, amateur-created, bubbles in the world.

After the instructions on how to use The Bubble Thing, the book covers all aspects of bubbles (history, science) in an entertaining styling accessible to children and young adults. And older adults, too, whoever cares to open it.

I really enjoyed this book, and guffawed at the author's humor. John Cassidy is an amusing writer. He courageously writes humor right alongside scientific fact, and pulls it off. His writing skills have obviously developed past those deserving a bunch of rotten vegetables thrown at him.

The inventor of the Bubble Thing, David Stein, has an interesting and personal story to tell about his invention. You get the impression from reading his story that there was no financial incentive behind the work he put into making his incredible toy. But he knew what he wanted, performance-wise, from the start. He cared about getting the best bubbles he could, but to entertain his baby daughter. Through trial-and-error, that was just what he got.

The book and the toy are all-around great, and I thoroughly recommend them. Try out the Bubble Thing, it's as good as what you fantasize it could be. The bubbles it makes are HUGE.