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Rubber Band Cars: Easy-to-Build Wind-Up Racers, Models, and Toys
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See a clip from "Wild Bill's Florida Road Show" WFTX-TV FOX 4 Rising in Fort Myers, Florida. Click the link above then click on "Rubber Band Car Man."
"I felt a sense of accomplishment as great as if I had just built a log cabin from felled trees." American Scientist Magazine
"Finally, an engineer writes a book for kids! Amazing Rubber Band Cars is much more than a throwback to the 1950s, when kids made their own toys. Mike Rigsby realizes that you learn more by building than by buying . . . and that home-brewing a cardboard car is just plain fun." —Cliff Stoll, author, The Cuckoo's Egg
"Besides, why should kids have all the fun?"--The Washington Post, Sunday, December 9, 2007 (featured with cover image in the "books of the week" section)
"Here's another book perfect for budding engineers, adult Destination ImagiNation/Odyssey of the Mind coaches, and others who teach building skills." --The Denver Post
"clever craft collection" School Library Journal, April, 2008
"The title says it all."--Boys Life, January, 2008
"encourages kids to experiment . ." Calgary's Child, March/April 2008
reviewed with cover image in the “What’s New?” section in the March/April 2008 issue of Edmonton’s Child
"Paper airplanes are old hat compared to the cars in Mike Rigsby's Amazing Rubber Band Cars."--Chicago Parent Magazine, January, 2008
"easily proves that kids do not need expensive building kits to learn how to make speedy racers"--City Parent, Ontario, January, 2008 http://www.cityparent.com/contests/9336
"a clever craft collection"--School Library Journal, April 2008
Reviewed with cover image in March/April 2008 issue of Edmonton's Child (Alberta, Canada)
Reviewed in March/April 2008 issue of Calgary's Child magazine
Reviewed in Bay City Times, Bay City, MI--Dec. 15, 2007
Reviewed in Jan. 2008 Treasure Valley Family Magazine
Reviewed in Tuscaloosa News, Tuscaloosa, AL--Nov. 25, 2007
Reviewed in News-Journal, Daytona, FL--Dec. 9, 2007
Reviewed in Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY--Dec. 30, 2007
Reviewed in Wisconsin State Journal, Dec. 9, 2007
Reviewed in Herald News (northern New Jersey)--Dec. 19-2007
Reviewed in Daily Herald, Provo, Utah--Dec. 18, 2007
Reviewed in Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) Dec. 2, 2007
". . . designs for about a dozen cars, including the eye-popping, jaw dropping life-size rubber band car." Judd Cribbs, WINK TV (click here for video)
Reviewed in Chattanooga Times Free Press, November 25, 2007
Reviewed in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 30, 2007
"Old Fashioned Fun"--Island Family Magazine, Hawaii (click here for link)
The December 2007 issue of Home Education Magazine includes a review. They call it a "collection of totally irresistible, admirably educational, and excitingly mobile projects."
A Basic Rubber Band Car was featured in the November issue of Pack-O-Fun magazine--goto the "Surrounded by Science" page. You can purchase Pack-O-Fun at Wal Mart, Target, K Mart, Michaels or other convenient stores. For locations to find this magazine, click here, or order a subscription by clicking on the link below.
Amazing Rubber Band Cars: Easy-to-Build Wind-Up Racers, Models, and Toys (Chicago Review Press, ISBN: 9781556527364) was listed on November 5, 2007 as a new book in the "Scientists' Bookshelf" section of American Scientist Online.