Bibliographic record
Abstract
Merlin,Christophe. Under the Hood. Sommerville, MA.: Candlewick Press, 2011. Print. Interactive books are expensive to make and there are always compromises. In this case the publishers have reduced some cost by making the front cover the title page and placing the publication information on the back cover. Strangely, the author’s given name is not printed on the book at all. Under the Hood has many flaps that children can lift to see what is underneath. Sometimes lifting a flap reveals another flap. The story is about Mr. Bear’s car and garage. When you open the book, you see the garage, with large wooden doors. Open the flaps that are the double doors, and you see a tarped car. When you lift the tarp, you see the car. The text asks, “Is there anyone under the tarp?” Open the car door flap and look into the car and see the word, “No” written on the inside of the door. This fun book also includes a large two-page fold out that allows you see the car up on a hoist, and has a pull-tab car that lets you race against an elephant on a motorcycle. Many of the flaps reveal the mundane; bolts in a box or tools in a toolbox. However, some hide visual surprises. When you lift the armoured vehicle flap, you see gangsters who have stolen the truck and tied up the driver. A tiny two-seater car folds out to be a dragster that has side-pipes with flames coming out of them. In the last scene, where the text asks, “where is Mouse?”, lifting the hood on the tow-truck reveals Mouse, still in his mechanic’s coveralls, curled up with a pillow. The text is very simple, aimed at age three and up. The vehicles are a late 1940’s or early 1950’s models. The images are all solid blocks of colour outlined with heavy black outlines. The colours are muted and the prints are made to look like badly printed woodcuts or block prints, giving the book the look of a comic with a “vintage” feel. This will be a book that is “loved to death”. Even though the book is a reinforced trade edition, printed on fairly heavy card stock, children will want to repeatedly lift the flaps and they will wear out and tear. Libraries with small budgets may want to invest in other volumes that will last longer. Parents may want to keep Under the Hood as a “special” book that is only read under supervision. Recommended: 3 stars out of 4Reviewer: Sandy CampbellSandy is a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Alberta, who has written hundreds of book reviews across many disciplines. Sandy thinks that sharing books with children is one of the greatest gifts anyone can give.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.139 | 0.118 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".