Children's Books on Inventions & Inventors

Gunpowder

By Chris Oxlade

SpaceX and Tesla Motors Engineer Elon Musk

By Matt Doeden

DK Eyewitness Books: Electricity: Discover the Story of Electricity-from the Earliest Discoveries to the Technolog

By Steve Parker

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

Weird True Facts: Inventions

By Moira Butterfield

Flickr Cofounder and Web Community Creator Caterina Fake

By Patricia Wooster

Ice Cream: An information book full of facts about ice cream.: Band 09/Gold (Collins Big Cat)

By Graves, Sue, Smith, Pete, Collins Big Cat, Moon, Cliff

How People Learned to Fly

By Fran Hodgkins, True Kelley

Cool Science Tricks: 50 Fantastic Feats for Kids of All Ages

By Daniel Tatarsky

Toys!: Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions

By Don Wulffson, Laurie Keller

Cathedral: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner

By David Macaulay

Minecraft Epic Bases: 12 mind-blowing builds to spark your imagination

By Mojang AB

The History of the Car

By Elizabeth Raum

Shocking Electricity (Horrible Science)

By Arnold, Nick, De Saulles, Tony

Calculus Affair

By Hergé

Harley Hitch and the Iron Forest

By Vashti Hardy, George Ermos

Firesong

By Vashti Hardy, George Ermos

Shoe Wars (the laugh-out-loud, packed-with-pictures new adventure from the creator of Tom Gates)

By Liz Pichon

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds - How to be a Magician!: Band 07/Turquoise

By Isabel Thomas, Will Amlot, Collins Big Cat

So You Want to Be an Inventor?

By Judith St. George, David Small

When We Got Lost in Dreamland

By Ross Welford

What Are You Making?: A non-fiction book about a group of children making a monster. (Collins Big Cat)

By Hawes, Alison, Elworthy, Antony, Collins Big Cat, Moon, Cliff

The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth

By Kathleen Krull, Greg Couch

Invention

By DK

The Clock

By Richard Spilsbury, Louise Spilsbury

Machines

By Gifford, Clive

Robots: Level 4 (National Geographic Readers)

By Stewart, Melissa, National Geographic Kids

How to Design the World's Best Robot: In 10 Simple Steps

By Mason, Paul

The Robot: A humorous story about making a robot. (Collins Big Cat): Band 01b/Pink B

By Shipton, Paul, Dunn, Gary, Collins Big Cat, Moon, Cliff, Paul Shipton

Phones Keep Us Connected

By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Kasia Nowowiejska