The following is a resource collection of items of interest to students, parents, schools and educators in regards to stimulating the creativity and passion within the rising generations to pursue interests and careers in the sciences, technology, mathematics, research, and inventing.
Steven Caney’s Invention Book, Steven Caney. (Workman Publishing, 1985). |
Steven Caney’s Ultimate Building Book, Steven Caney. (Running Press Kids, 2006). |
Accidents May Happen: Fifty Inventions Discovered by Mistake, Charlotte Foltz Jones. (Delacorte, 1996). |
How Nearly Everything was Invented by the Brainwaves, by Jilly MacLeod. (DK Publishing, 2006). |
Inventing Toys: Kids Having Fun Learning Science, Ed Sobey. (Zephyr Press, 2001) |
Young Inventors at Work: Learning Science by Doing Science, Ed Sobey. (Good Year Books, 1999) |
Loco Motion: Physics Models for the Classroom,
Ed Sobey. (Zephyr Press, 2005) |
How to Enter and Win an Invention Contest,
Ed Sobey. (Enslow Publishers,1999) |
I is for Idea: An Inventions Alphabet, Marcia Schonberg. (Sleeping Bear Press, 2005). |
Imaginative Inventions, Charise Mericle Harper. (Little, Brown, & Co., 2001). |
How Benjamin Franklin Stole the Lightning,
Rosalyn Schanzer. (Harper Collins, 2003). |
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin, Gene Barretta. (Henry Holt & Co., 2006) |
DK Eye Wonder Invention, Caroline Bingham. (DK Press, 2004). |
Inventions: Frequently Asked Questions, Valerie Wyatt. (Kids Can Press, 2003). |
The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle and Other Inspiring Stories About Inventions, Don L. Wulffson. (Cobblehill Books, 1997). |
The Kid Who Invented the Trampoline: More Surprising Stories About Inventions, Don L. Wulffson. (Dutton Children’s Books, 2001). |
So You Want to be an Inventor? Judith St. George. (Philomel Books, 2002). |
DK 1000 Inventions and Discoveries, Roger Bridgman. (DK Press in Association with the Smithsonian Institution, 2002). |
Young Thomas Edison, Michael Dooling. (Holiday House, 2005). |
The Science Book for Girls, Valerie Wyatt. (Kids Can Press, 2008). |