Beakman's World

This is a kit, and book set from the 'Beakman's World: Build With Beakman' series. It consists of; A book, Two plastic hovercraft shell outter body pieces, a screw in plastic nozzle, a sticker, and two yellow balloons with the image of Beakman on them. Besides the illustrations and text, the book has images of the actors and penguin puppets with speech balloons, with helpful information, or silly comments. The book tells the reader how to build the hovercraft and tells how it works. Then suggests experiments with how to push it and differant surfaces to run it over. It then explains friction and illistrated this by showing various parts of a bicycle with its friction locations labeled. Air hockey, and water slides are also discussed. Then there is a history of Hovercrafts. There is then a explanation of the 'Ground-Effect car' a car that also had elements of hovercraft added to it. The last page has a image of the kits hovercraft, with a speech balloon giving Beakman's final comment. The book is written by Luann Colombo writing as if she were Beakman, addressing the reader directly. The book is illustrated by Peter Georgeson, and mentions the art being based an episode of "Beakman'