Amazing Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself
Author(s): Maxine Anderson
Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself introduces readers to the life, world, and incredible mind of Leonardo da Vinci through hands-on building projects that explore his invention ideas. Most of Leonardo's inventions were never made in his lifetime--they remained sketches in his famous notebooks. Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself shows you how to bring these ideas to life using common household supplies. Detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and templates for creating each project combine with historical facts and anecdotes, biographies and trivia about the real-life models for each project. Together they give kids a first-hand look into the amazing mind of one the world's greatest inventors.
Product Information
"Anderson regales us with tales of Leonardo's brilliant, often mischievous nature, and the nearly unfathomable range of his inventions." --"The New York Times Book Review"
Lauri Berkenkamp is the author of six books for kids. Writing under the pen name Maxine Anderson she has written Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself, which was excerpted in the New York Times Book Review and Christian Science Monitor, chosen as the #7 BookSense Children's Pick for Summer 2006 and named Book of the Year by the Society for School Librarians International in 2006; Great Civil War Projects You Can Build Yourself, which was excerpted in Boys' Life magazine and called "a fascinating gem of a book" by the New York Times Book Review; Explore Spring, and Explore Winter, which were chosen as Parents' Choice Recommended Books for 2007, Discover the Amazon, as well as Discover the Oceans.
Introduction; Leonardo the Artist and Dreamer; Leonardo's Useful Machines; Leonardo and Water; Leonardo in Flight; Leonardo's War Inventions; Glossary, Index.
General Fields
- :
- : Nomad Press
- : Nomad Press
- : 0.331
- : 01 February 2006
- : 255mm X 205mm X 9mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Maxine Anderson
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 608
- : 122
- : b/w illlus