This photographic nonfiction picture book is a great introduction to the concept of tools for preschoolers and kindergartners

Do you use tools? Sure you do, anytime you eat with a spoon or drink with a straw or write with a pen! A French chef flipping crepes with her spatula; Salvadoran fishers mending nets with their marlinespikes; an American girl carving a jack-o'-lantern with a knife—in every country of the world, people of all ages use tools to make their lives easier.

As with all of the books in this classic series, a broad spectrum of men and women from around the world help make the information relevant and easily digestible. Do you use tools? Sure you do, anytime you eat with a spoon or drink with a straw or write with a pen! A French chef flipping crepes with her spatula; Salvadoran fishers mending nets with their marlinespikes; an American girl carving a jack-o'-lantern with a knife -- in every country of the world, people of all ages use tools to make their lives easier. "The author's point—tools are universal—is well taken. Heyman's photographs take readers literally on a trip around the world."