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How People Work · 06
The Weather Inside
A field guide to how people work
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How People Work · 06

The Weather Inside

A field guide to how people work

A field guide to the storms some people carry, and what they do to everyone nearby.

A flashlight on the machinery inside people. Ages 10-14 · about 64 pages.

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Inside every Ashlight book
  1. The story

    Invented people, a real situation, told in short chapters with big pictures.

  2. What happened here

    The mechanism in plain words, said straight: facts flat, odds with their "unless".

  3. Where it comes from

    How people and systems get this way, so the reader stops guessing it's their fault.

  4. Puzzle pieces

    Questions to talk about, with no answer key. The reader decides.

For the grown-up

This book is about conditions in the world. It shows how that works without taking sides and without talking down, and it ends with questions instead of a lesson. Your kid may ask you something afterwards. That's the point.

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The Grown-Ups' Guide

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