Wendy Loten

Flat ribbons of steel are stamped and shaped to become utensils. Gears and Wiz are soon the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Stamping, spraying, tuning and testing. Gears and Wiz hammer things out at the Xylophone factory

Our adventurers have no fears of the bees that build the combs and fill them with honey but they are amazed to discover how that honey gets out of the hive and into the jars.

Gears and Wiz are enchanted by delightful fantasy characters when they visit an artist's studio to make marionettes

With moving characters, a whistling bird and a music box in a tiny cottage, Gears and Wiz see what makes up a Cuckoo Clock.

Bells of different sizes and tones are combined to play music. Gears and Wiz go inside a carillon to find out exactly how.

Wiz uses his x-ray vision to see how the jam gets into the donuts.

Gears and Wiz discover spaghetti and lasagne are made in places other than Italy.

Wiz is astonished to discover that Gears' favourite sandwich topper started out as a cucumber.

Gears and Wiz see how pencil leads have a bath in hot wax before they are able to write, and the secret of how the lead gets into the pencil is revealed!