Inventions & Inventors

Peek inside your body, from head to toe! Where does food go after you swallow it? Where is your heart, and what does it do? Where are your lungs? What do y...

Moving, funny, and totally true childhood biographies of Bill Gates, Madam C. J. Walker, Hedy Lamarr, Walt Disney, and 12 other international innovators. Mo...

Find out all about the many kinds of webs spiders spin in this level 2 Let's Read and Find Out. How do spiders spin such large webs? Spiders produce a uni...

Bobbie Kalman's acclaimed Historic Communities Series provides a close-up view of how people lived more than two hundred years ago. Colorful photos, many ta...

Discover the stories behind 15 of the twentieth century's key inventions in this fun and informative treasury of trailblazing women, who each made a unique...

"What did people use before they had refrigerators?" and "Where do inventors get their ideas?" are some of the questions answered in this intriguing look a...

Basher Science: Technology, A byte-sized world! created and illustrated by Simon Basher, written by Dan Green From the bestselling illustrator whose friend...

"[In] a revision of the 1963 edition, [a] brief, clearly written text [tells of a young girl who] learns some interesting facts about fireflies from her gr...

With Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines, You'll Create Twelve Zany And Awesome Mechanical Contraptions Using Stuff From Around The House--Categories: Ch...

Piggy banks, silly putty, potato chips and frisbees are all things that were invented by mistake. Includes a bibliography. An IRA-CBC Children's Choice. ...

Even the most well-known people have struggled to succeed! Find out what they learned and how they turned their failures into triumphs with this engaging a...

What Is A Truck? How Fast Can A Truck Go? Which Trucks Work On A Building Site? My Little Book Of Big Trucks Answers All These Questions And More. Simple, E...

Applying engaging, innovative design and fun, informative text, 100 Inventions That Made History looks at the trailblazing inventions that have advanced te...

A Photo Essay About The History, Development, And Impact Of Automobiles From Horseless Carriages And Model T Fords To Modern High-performance Racing Cars; F...

Make your own robot books are powerful STEAM texts. With step-by-step instructions, easy to find parts, and illustrations that match exactly the reader's ne...

Now in paperback—National Geographic Children's Books presents the award-winning photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell. This fascinating profile, named...