The Little Inventors Handbook: A guide to becoming an ingenious inventor - Softcover

Wilcox, Dominic; Mengardon, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000830615X ISBN 13: 9780008306151

Publisher: Collins, 2018

Synopsis

The ideal gift for every young inventor

A step by step guide to thinking up fantastical, funny or perfectly practical inventions with no limits!

This book encourages budding inventors to think big and have fun with their imaginations! Be inspired by drawings of scarf helicopters, ladybird umbrellas, and ghost wash’n’dry machines! Check out toothbrush maraccas, square peas, and nose scratchers! What will YOU invent?

With this step by step guide, Chief Inventor Dominic Wilcox talk Little Inventors through the process of coming up with new ideas, including problem solving, ways to make objects better, and thinking about the ways people use things.

Complete activities and learn some cool facts about the history of inventions, science, tech, art and design along the way! Based on the project which takes children’s invention ideas and makes them real.

About this title

About the Author

Little Inventors is the brainchild of artist and designer Dominic Wilcox, in collaboration with expert educationalists, designers and curators. Dominic Wilcox is a world renowned inspirational inventor, designer and artist who creates innovative and thought-provoking objects. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world including the V&A and London’s Design Museum. Katherine Mengardon is an education author with years of experience developing creative innovative online school programmes for the BBC, Cartoon Network, GSK, BP, Pearson and Nesta to name a few. She is Chief Educator at the Little Inventors and develops popular resources to take creativity and invention to children across the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000830615X
• ISBN 13: 9780008306151
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152