This Book Thinks You're an Inventor

Imagine • Experiment • Create

Harriet Russell, Jon Milton, The Science Museum

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English

Thames & Hudson
30 January 2020

Children's & Educational; Science & technology: general interest (Children's&YA)

Series: This Book Thinks You're…

This activity book helps children to think like an inventor by introducing key engineering concepts in a highly visual and entertaining way. Through fun activities and Harriet Russell's playful illustrations, it encourages readers to engage with new ideas and think about problems in a creative way.

The book explores the six key aspects of engineering that are essential to any successful inventor: problem-finding, designing, making and testing, improving your invention, building techniques and how to find new uses for existing objects. Each spread centres on an open-ended question that introduces a different way of approaching an invention. Activities include making a bridge from toothpicks and mini marshmallows; inventing a way to lift this book without touching it; building a painting robot; designing your own remote control; and harvesting electricity from a banana. At the end of the book is a tinkering lab, which includes paper-based crafts and engineering activities.

By: The Science Museum
Illustrated by: Harriet Russell
Consultant editor: Jon Milton
Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 195mm,
Weight: 270g
ISBN: 9780500651766
ISBN 10: 0500651760
Series: This Book Thinks You're…
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 30 January 2020
Recommended Age: From 7 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Get started: discover your inventing style; hate something, change something; fill your inventing toolbox; spin the wheel of invention; wreck your tech • Amazing Materials: hunt around your house; feed the birds; invent a new use for paper; sweeten some science; engineer your do • Transport and Machines: slide like a snail; ping your prince; pimp your ride; fly like a bird; turn this book into a machine • At home: eat your dinner; imagineer future tech; be a child genius • AI and Robots: design a robot helper; code a bracelet; follow exact instructions • Buildings: make a structure out of people; build a paper skyscraper; tinker with bridges • Helping People and Planet: get wind (to power a machine); save the planet; read without looking; fight off the plastic attack! • This book thinks it’s a tinkering space

Jon Milton is Head of Content at the Science Museum, London, and author of The Super-Intelligent High-Tech Robot Book. Harriet Russell studied at Glasgow School of Art followed by Central Saint Martins. She regularly exhibits in London and New York.

Reviews for This Book Thinks You're an Inventor: Imagine • Experiment • Create

Amson-Bradshaw offers numerous ideas for young creators to use when making their own unique creations... The illustrations work well for the book's interactive nature... A great gift for young readers interested in making things.