Ali Mitgutsch

Highlights the step-by step process of shearing sheep, spinning wool, and knitting a scarf.

Traces the journey of cotton from the plants, through the cotton gin and the spinning mill where it is made into thread, to the loom where it is woven into cloth, and finally to the clothing factory where it is sewn into pants.

Describes the process of glassmaking from the melting of sand in a furnace with soda, lime, and recycled glass to the molten glass that is blown into bottles and jars and rolled into window panes.

Describes how ice cream is made from milk.

Text and illustrations describe how commercial lemonade is made and bottled in factories and shipped to stores and restaurants.

Follows limestone from the quarry to the factory where it eventually is formed into cement and ultimately becomes concrete and is made into a bridge.

Describes how people gradually switched from the barter system to trading with pieces of gold which were eventually marked with their weight and became coins. Also discusses other metals that are used to make coins.