11 Experiments That Failed
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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.
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The author of 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do comes up with another list book. This time, our main character shows all the experiments she tried that failed, cleverly revealing in the process the quirky quality of children's thinking. Absolutely delightful.
“Question:
What makes fungus grow?
Hypothesis:
If left in a closet, food will rot and become a colorful fungus garden.
What You Need:
Brother's shoes
Bread and cheese
Water
What to Do:
1. Place food inside shoes.
2. Sprinkle with water.
3. Hide shoes in back of closet.
4. Return in two weeks.
What Happened:
Experiment is still under way.” (Accompanying drawing shoes a tennis shoe with mushrooms growing out of it.)
Our protagonist is slightly less psychopathic in this book than in [b:17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore 196092 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore Jenny Offill https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1437753336s/196092.jpg 189656], and she shows a pretty good grasp of the scientific method. She even uses a control group when trying to find out if plants like Eau La La perfume better than water! She concludes that they do not. I love the endpapers that show her Rube Goldberg setup to put bologna on her sandwich and what actually happened when she tried it out.
