Books for Making

This is an ever-growing list of books that you can use to inspire maing with your students. The core of this list was generated as part of an online discussion within the Library Journal: Lead the Change workshop on maker spaces. Links are to lessons described on the blog.

Picture Books Fiction:
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
3, 2, 1, Go! by Emily Arnold McCully
Float by Daniel Miyares
Metal Man by Aaron Reynolds
Going Places by Peter & Paul Reynolds
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
The Dumpster Diver by Janet Wong
If I Built a Car by Chris VanDusen
If I Built a House by Chris VanDusen
What Do You Do with an Idea? by Kobi Yamada

Picture Books Nonfiction:

Earmuffs for Everyone: How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of Earmuffs by Meghan McCarthy

Middle Grade Nonfiction

Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler and The Lost Trail by Donn Fendler, Lynne Plourde, and Ben Bishop