• Age: 8 to 12
• Grade: 3 to 7
• Reading age: 8 to 12

CDs start out as sand. Blackboard chalk comes from tiny sea creatures. The objects all around us --- every single product in the world --- is made from elements found in nature. Discover how nature is transformed into more than 60 things we eat, drink, play with, wear or use every day.

Technology changes constantly, but the stages raw materials go through to become finished objects remain much the same. On every page of this big book, these processes are described and illustrated step by step. The text and artwork combine playfulness with encyclopedic attention to detail.

This unique and fascinating book will inform and entertain every step of the way. Includes a glossary, index and further resources to help children, parents and teachers.

Multiple award winning illustrator Bill Slavin was born in Belleville, Ontario. His work includes the acclaimed 'Stanley's Party' written by Linda Bailey, 'Who Broke the teapot!' as well as more than 100 award winning children's books.
Among his many honours, Bill has won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, the Blue Spruce Award, the California Young Reader Medal and the Zena Sutherland Award for Children's Literature. Recently, he has returned to his childhood love of comics and graphic novels, writing and illustrating the graphic novel trilogy Elephants Never Forget, as now the Mordecai Crow trilogy. Quid Pro Crow is Bil's second book with Renegade Arts Entertainment.

Bill Slavin's profile page

• Winner, Red Cedar Book Award
• Winner, Great Book of the Year, Canadian Toy Testing Council
• Short-listed, Alberta Children's Choice Rocky Mountain Book Award
• Winner, Norma Fleck Award, Canadian Children's Book Centre
• Short-listed, Information Book Award, Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada
• Short-listed, Independant Publisher Book Award

Transformed provides illuminating answers to the questions that children ask and that adults forget they've wondered.

ForeWord

A jaunty and enthusiastic foray into how stuff is made.

Booklist

[F]ascinating picture of modern manufacturing

Booklinks

[L]ively presentation.

School Library Journal

Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made