by Andrea Beaty
illustrated by David Roberts
 
Do you like to make things? Dream up gadgets to improve your life and the lives of others? Then you'll enjoy this fantastic project book which has up to 40 things to create and invent! Alongside superbly geeky information -such as different kinds of engineering, basic machinery- there are tips for designing machines which turns "thingies" into "gizmos", instructions for making a basic solar oven (using cookie dough and foil) as well as a catapult perfectly attuned to marshmallow-flinging. Scattered throughout there are also 'Real-World Problems' for budding engineers opt consider such as how we can save more water and how to harness wind/sun energy to cook with. Age 4-8, Paperback activity book 93pp