Maker Lab: 28 Super Cool Projects
10 best books like Maker Lab: 28 Super Cool Projects (Jack Challoner): An Egg Is Quiet: (Nature Books for Kids, Children's Books Ages 3-5, Award Winning Children's Books), Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, Human Body Theater, Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide, The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation, The Little Bit Scary People, Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World, Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals: A Mixed-Media Workshop with Carla Sonheim, That's a Possibility!: A Book About What Might Happen, Archie's War
| Author | Dianna Hutts Aston |
| ISBN | 0811844285 |
Award-winning artist Sylvia Long has teamed with up-and-coming author Dianna Aston to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to eggs. From tiny hummingbird eggs to giant ostrich eggs, oval ladybug eggs to tubular dogfish eggs, gooey frog eggs to fossilized dinosaur eggs, it magnificently...
| Author | Margot Lee Shetterly |
| ISBN | 0062742469 |
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really good.
They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a...
| Author | Maris Wicks |
| ISBN | 1596439297 |
Welcome to the Human Body Theater, where your master of ceremonies is going to lead you through a theatrical revue of each and every biological system of the human body! Starting out as a skeleton, the MC puts on a new layer of her costume (her body) with each "act." By turns goofy and intensely informative,...
| Author | Ximena Vengoecheo |
| ISBN | 0761160949 |
It’s the revolutionary world history study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.
Everything You Need to Ace World History . . . kicks off with the Paleolithic Era and transports the reader to ancient civilizations—from Africa and beyond; the...
| Author | Gilbert Ford |
| ISBN | 1481450654 |
With magnificent dioramic illustrations, Gilbert Ford captures the joy, creativity, and determination behind the invention of an iconic, one-of-a-kind toy: the Slinky!
One day, a spring fell from the desk of Richard James, an engineer and a dreamer. Its coils took a walk…and so did Richard’s...
| Author | Emily Jenkins |
| ISBN | 1423100751 |
Jenkins, E. (2008). The little bit scary people. Boiger, A. New York, NY: Hyperion Books for Children.
Genre: Children’s Picture Storybook (Multicultural)
A young girl comes across some “scary” people throughout her day. A cranky bus driver, a teen kicking a trash can, and...
| Author | Elizabeth Rusch |
| ISBN | 0763658553 |
Move over, Thomas Edison! Nikola Tesla takes the spotlight in a biography of the man who pioneered modern electrical engineering — and changed the course of history.
When a Serbian boy named Nikola Tesla was three, he stroked his cat and was enchanted by the electrical sparks. By the time...
| Author | Carla Sonheim |
| ISBN | 1592538053 |
Rediscover a more child-like approach to creating with Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals! Through fun and creative exercises, Carla Sonheim teaches you to draw a variety of fun animals and creatures, including:
- Dogs
- Birds
- Elephants
- Fish
-...
| Author | Bruce Goldstone |
| ISBN | 0805089985 |
With colorful photographs and interactive examples, Bruce Goldstone introduces children to the ideas of something being possible, probable, or impossible. Each spread features an easy-to-understand scenario such as dice rolling, with questions about probable outcomes and simple explanations....
| Author | Marcia Williams |
| ISBN | 0763635324 |
Marcia Williams captures the Great War through a child’s eyes with a fascinating fictional scrapbook including real mementos of the day.
Meet ten-year-old Archie, his family, and best friend in a scrapbook Archie has made himself, full of comic strips and plenty of other memorabilia....
The Polymer Clay Techniques Book
| Author | Sue Heaser |
| ISBN | 1581800088 |
Everyone can achieve great results with polymer clay. With the 50+ techniques in this book, readers can create polymer clay buttons or boxes or anything in between. Starting with the very basics (such as rolling, baking and gluing), it then moves on to more advanced methods: marbling, texturing, millefiori,...
Travel through the exciting world of cartography with Map Art Lab. This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds....
| Author | Rebecca Langston-George |
One of the most important, meaningful and courageous stories of bravery and equality of our times.
Everyone should know who Malala is and now through this book, children of younger ages can learn and appreciate her tremendous, honorable and valuable work, and her incredible story.
For...
| Author | Seth Fishman |
| ISBN | 0062455788 |
“This picture book is one in a gazillion.”—Jane O’Connor, the New York Times–bestselling author of the Fancy Nancy series
Did you know that the earth is covered in three trillion trees? And that seven billion people weigh about the same as ten quadrillion ants? Our world is full...
Brick City: Global Icons to Make from Lego
| Author | Warren Elsmore |
| ISBN | 1438002491 |
Brick City is a model builder's festival in book form. What lends special distinction to the models is the way they're constructed. Each is made entirely of LEGO bricks! Known for decades as a favorite children's toy, LEGO bricks have entered the adult model builder's repertoire in recent years. Author...
Naked Eggs and Flying Potatoes: Unforgettable Experiments That Make Science Fun
WOW! That's just the beginning of what we think of Unforgettable Experiments That Make Science Fun by Steve Spangler! It's amazing, it's incredible, it's FUN! This book has all the elements (pardon the pun) that make science fun and interesting... the step by step easy to follow directions with incredible...
| Author | Jenny Offill |
| ISBN | 0375965726 |
In this hilarious read-aloud featuring robots, fire trucks, and pirates, meet an older sister who’s more than happy to fill her little brother in on all he missed while he was napping. Since none of the other neighborhood kids had to nap, they came over. Then came the robots, and of course the astronauts....
| Author | Jonah Winter |
| ISBN | 1481469134 |
Mother-son team Jonah and Jeanette Winter bring to life one of the most secretive scientific projects in history—the creation of the atomic bomb—in this powerful and moving picture book.
At a former boy’s school in the remote desert of New Mexico, the world’s greatest scientists...
Martha Stewart's Favorite Crafts for Kids: 175 Projects for Kids of All Ages to Create, Build, Design, Explore, and Share
| Author | Martha Stewart |
| ISBN | 0307954749 |
Martha Stewart's Favorite Crafts for Kids focuses on craft projects that children, aged three to twelve, can make with their parents. These projects are fun, yet serve a practical purpose; children can wear, decorate, and play with what they make. Filled with ideas for a range of ages, skill levels,...
| Author | Linda Kranz |
| ISBN | 0873589017 |
There's only one you in this great big world. Make it a better place. Adri's mama and papa share some of the wisdom they have gained through the years with their eager son. Their words, simple and powerful, are meant to comfort and guide him as he goes about exploring the world. This exquisitely illustrated...
Outdoor Science Lab for Kids: 52 Family-Friendly Experiments for the Yard, Garden, Playground, and Park
| Author | Liz Lee Heinecke |
| ISBN | 1631591150 |
Learn physics, chemistry and biology in your own backyard!
At-home science provides an environment for freedom, creativity and invention that is not always possible in a school setting. In your own backyard, it's simple, inexpensive, and fun to whip up a number of amazing science experiments...
| Author | Karen Benke |
| ISBN | 1590308123 |
Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! This is the everything-you-need guide to spark new poems and unstick old stories, including lists of big, small, gross-out, and favorite words; adventurous and zany prompts to leap...
| Author | Mike Doyle |
| ISBN | 1593275080 |
"Far from child's play. An astonishing collection." —Publishers Weekly
Mix hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks with dozens of artists, and what do you get? Beautiful LEGO, a compendium of LEGO artwork that showcases a stunning array of pieces ranging from incredibly lifelike replicas...
| Author | Steve Light |
| ISBN | 1452118647 |
The excavator goes, "chumma chumma hufft hufft FALUMP." The steamroller goes, "CHUG chug CHUG chug moooooosh." The wrecking ball goes, "BOOOOOM!" Come on down to the construction site and make some noise with eight exciting construction vehicles as they rumble, crunch, chug, and boom their way through...
The Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun: Cool Hacks, Cutting-Edge Games, and More Awesome Projects for the Whole Family
| Author | Ken Denmead |
| ISBN | 1592406440 |
A fresh batch of geeky weekend science projects for the whole family to enjoy. Ken Denmead struck a chord with parents and kids across America with his GeekDad blog on Wired.com, which receives more than one million page views per month. His debut book, Geek Dad, was on bestseller lists and in its seventh...
