Have you ever wondered how all those simple inventions, you know, the ones we use everyday and often take for granted, came about? Well fortunately for us, Don Wulffson has always "wanted to know" and has taken the time to research, and compile a fascinating book about the origins of fifty common inventions, many that we use everyday. Find out who invented Post-it Notes, toilet paper, napkins, and the pencil eraser. Or maybe you've always wanted to know how ketchup came about, or hair coloring, deodorant, the toothbrush, or even the vacuum cleaner, and washing machine. Well now you have the opportunity to find out. Each short chaper is written in an easy to read, conversational style, and is chock full of historical information, fun facts, and trivia, including photographs, old advertisements, sidebars, and fact bubbles, to grab your attention, and enhance learning. Perfect for youngsters 9 and older, The Kid Who Invented The Trampoline is a book that whets the appetite, and peaks one's interest, and once your kids start reading, it's a book they just won't want to put down. So find out who invented the birthday cake, and the Happy Birthday song, and enjoy!

This leisure read will delight any young fan of odd facts - and plenty an adult reader. From a New Jersey 8th grader who invented the snowboard to Jules Leotard - who was in love with his image, and the invention of catsup by the Chinese, this delightful compendium for kids covers many a common item and provides delightful facts in a lively photo-embellished presentation.

Toys Amazing stories Behind Great Invemtions is a fantastic book.It's filled with stoies. One of the stories are about toy soldiers Little boys in Europe during the Middle ages played with wooden knights. Little boys in Greece played with clay soldiers.This book is the greates book I ever read. Don Wulffson made this book great. Laurie Keller made the picters great If you want to know how some of your favorite kinds of toys were made you should get this book.

Have you ever wondered who invented the bicycle, Legos, and other toys? You can find the answers to many of your questions in this book. I learned so many things I never knew before about a variety of toys,ranging from mechanical toys and toy trains to Twister and Trivial Pursuit to Mr. Potatoe Head and Raggedy Ann. It was a great book, easy to read, and made learning fun. I'm sure both children and adults will be facinated by what they read and learn. Now I want to go out and share the information with everyone I know!

It is realy scary!It has a lot of different stories.The more you read them you wish you would not have checked it out!I say everybody should read it.

Great Stories Behind Famous Books by Don Wulffson profiles fourteen favorite books and authors, reproducing short stories with unexpected twists and instructions suitable for classroom and library activities. Assignment examples and teacher resources make this an important guide.

Soldier X by Don Wulffson is a suspenseful book about World War II and the different countries involved in the war. Erik Brandt, the main character, is also called X. Wulffson writes a great story about courage and bravery when Brandt is forced into the Nazi army and is later put into Russian hands.
When Russians invade the German camp, Brandt becomes stuck under a tank with a dead Russian soldier. Brandt speaks Russian fluently, because of his family background, and soon becomes this Russian soldier so no one recognizes him as the enemy. In the hospital Brandt is being taken cared of, he receives his nickname, X, from a man in the bed next to him. Over the weeks X meets new people and really becomes a Russian. When the hospital is bombed, both X and Tamara, a lovely nurse X is in love with, must flee for their lives.
Wulffson does an excellent job explaining the hardships they go through together. By reading this book, not only do you learn about things you might not have known about World War II, but you also learn some of the German and Russian languages. I believe this book may be a little too depressing or descriptive for some, but otherwise I found it to be a very interesting book, full of new facts and trivia.
I think this book is directed towards a more mature audience because of the topics discussed. This was another superb book by Don Wulffson who has already won the Distinguished Achievement Award for his educational writing. Soldier X is a historical fiction book that parallels many German soldiers during World War II on the Eastern Front.
In this serious but suspenseful and even entertaining novel we can learn more about the hardships of World War II.

Soldier X is a very good world war two story telling about a German boy drafted into the Hitler Youth Group and was heading into a Russian battle field. He gets trapped behind enemy lines and makes a riskey move to stay alive.
This is a compelling and gratifying war book, that is so good you don't want to put it down. On a Scale of one to ten, ten being the best, I give this Don Wulffson novel a ten.

This is another good book which I read recently. It is stated as a children's book for those aged 9-12. Indeed, the book was written in such a way which is easily comprehensible. However, I do not think that a 9 or 12 year old kid would understand the horror of war itself or the feelings of losing their friends and parents during a war unless they are very smart or they live in war-torn countries like Afghanistan. Their great grandparents would definitely do. The book also contains some passages which are very bloody and brutal for kids to read.
I strongly believe that the book should not be treated as a kid's book. If the author is right in his claim that "the story is not only true, but also loosely parallels the experience of an estimated thirty thousand German soldiers during World War II on the Eastern Front", which I have no reason to believe otherwise, this book should be treated as a war memoir of a former Hitler Youth member whose name is "Soldier X" and not as a mere fiction.