Title: Beakman's World
Subtitle: Build With Beakman, Hovercraft
Description: This is a kit, and book set from the 'Beakman's World: Build With Beakman' series. It consists of; A book, Two plastic hovercraft shell outter body pieces, a screw in plastic nozzle, a sticker, and two yellow balloons with the image of Beakman on them. Besides the illustrations and text, the book has images of the actors and penguin puppets with speech balloons, with helpful information, or silly comments. The book tells the reader how to build the hovercraft and tells how it works. Then suggests experiments with how to push it and differant surfaces to run it over. It then explains friction and illistrated this by showing various parts of a bicycle with its friction locations labeled. Air hockey, and water slides are also discussed. Then there is a history of Hovercrafts. There is then a explanation of the 'Ground-Effect car' a car that also had elements of hovercraft added to it. The last page has a image of the kits hovercraft, with a speech balloon giving Beakman's final comment.

The book is written by Luann Colombo writing as if she were Beakman, addressing the reader directly. The book is illustrated by Peter Georgeson, and mentions the art being based an episode of "Beakman's World. Peter Georgeson and Suzanne Brooker are credited with the design of the book. Its Electronic Production was done by Suzanne Brooker and Sue Ann Harkey. The actors seen in the photographs are Paul Zaloom as "Beakman", Mark Ritts as "Lester", and Eliza Jane Schneider as "Liza", and Allana Ubach as "Jose". This book is part of a series of the "Beakman's World" products, they are all based on the original newspaper feature, 'You Can with Beakman & Jax' by Jok Church.

Other books in the 'Beakman' series are;
--'You Can With Beakman & Jax' books;
* You Can with Beakman: Science Stuff You Can Do. ISBN: 0836270045 (June 1, 1992)
** El Mundo De Beakman: Experimentos Divertidos. {Spanish language edition} ISBN: 9706433856 (January 1, 2001).
* You Can with Beakman & Jax: More Science Stuff You Can Do. ISBN: 0836270088 (June 1, 1994)
** El Mundo De Beakman y Jax: Experimentos Divertidos. {Beakman & Jax} ISBN: 9706434151 (May 1, 2002)
* You Can With Beakman & Jax: Way More Science Stuff. ISBN: 0836270436 (June 1, 1995)
** El Mundo De Beakman y Jax: Mas Experimentos Divertidos. {Beakman & Jax} ISBN: 9706434666 (May 1, 2002)
* Beakman and Jax's Microscope Book. ISBN: 0836270215 (December 1, 1995)
* The Best of You Can With Beakman & Jax: A Collection of the Grossest, Weirdest, Coolest Experiments You Can Do. ISBN: 0836236661 (October 1, 1997)
* Beakman & Jax's Bubble Book: Plus Everything You Need to Make a Real Square Bubbles! ISBN: 0836227069 (September 1, 1997)
* The Best of You Can With Beakman and Jax: Over 100 of the Grossest, Weirdest, Coolest, Experiments You Can Do. ISBN: 0887248004 (September 20, 2005)  The Best of You Can With Beakman and Jax: Over 100 of the Grossest, Weirdest, Coolest, Experiments You Can Do. {A reprint of the earlier 'Best of' book with new Acknowledgments/Greetings information.}

--'Beakman's World: Build With Beakman" books;
* Bacteria Farm 0836270134 (November 1, 1994)
* Electronic Intercom 0836270126 (November 1, 1994)
* Hovercraft 0836270401 (June 1, 1995)
* Spud Watch 0836270428 (June 1, 1995)

--Other Beakman's World books;
* Beakman's World: A Visit to the Hit TV Show. ISBN: 0836270053 (September 1, 1993)
* Beakman's Book of Dead Guys and Gals in Science. ISBN: 0836270142 (November 1, 1994)
* Beakman's Gear Up Your Gray Matter. ISBN: 0836270150 (November 1, 1994)
* Beakman's Gear Up Your Gray Matter: Volume II. ISBN: 0836270398 (July 1, 1996)
Subjects: Juvenile literature, Science, Children's, Questions and Answers, Projects, Experiments, Puzzles, Quiz, Visual, Learning, Art, Comics, Drawings, Photographs, Illustrations, Humor, Home, Do it Yourself, DIY, Jax, Beakman, Hovercraft, Friction, Air Pressure, Force, Action, Propulsion, Ground-effect machines
People: Christopher Cockerell, Beakman Place, Lester D. Rat, Liza, Jose