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Not only is this book incredibly out of date, it is maddening to try to read to a genuinely curious child. While the illustrations of the insides of machines are really fascinating and should leave the reader with a special and intimate knowledge of the machines we use every day, they ruined those illustrations with crazy and goofy characters and applications that are not real. I cannot figure out why so much work would go into making interesting child friendly illustrations and then be thrown away by having a crew of robots sitting at drum sets, pianos and guitars inside the walkman. The interesting is made dumb and confusing. My 3 1/2 year old knows enough to know that there are not little robots in the walkman or little men having a dance party but it leaves him confused about which parts of the illustration are real and which are fictional. What a disappointment.