In this rhyming story, Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and eBook and eAudio on Hoopla.  

When a cupcake disaster derails Birdie’s birthday plans, the little girl’s alter ego, Crafty Cat, saves the day. Presented in comic book format.

Inspired by the authors’ experiences of looking at and making art with kids and families at the Museum of Modern Art, and designed to get both children and adults to start thinking like artists, this volume presents an array of projects that use easy-to-find materials and encourage hours of imaging, designing, experimenting, constructing, creating, tinkering, and play.

As an artist creatively incorporates her slipups into a drawing, readers see the ways in which ‘mistakes’ can provide inspiration and opportunity, and reveal that both the art and artist are works-in-progress.

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby.

Why do things move, fly, tick, or explode? Explore the science behind construction, from how zip wires move to how marble runs work, with these 25 hands-on experiments. Using easy-to-find objects and tools, each fun project, including a 10-second marble challenge, can be constructed at home. Every experiment includes a “How It Works” explanation and a difficulty rating to guide budding engineers.

Hands-on crafty science book introduces children to science concepts through craft projects with everyday objects. Combines art, craft, and cooking activities with scientific learning. Children can learn how to make a toy raft and discover what makes their boat float, design and color a paper butterfly and watch it balance on the tip of a pencil, or create an ice sculpture and learn about the changing states of solids and liquids. Concepts like buoyancy, gravity, and aerodynamics are explored through play.

A collection of concrete poetry, illustrations, and photographs that shows how young children’s constructions, created as they play, are reflected in notable works of architecture from around the world. Includes biographies of the architects, quotations, and sources.

Rube Goldberg was a real cartoonist who got really, really famous by inventing a whole lot of crazy, brilliant, impractical, funny stuff. None of which ever got made. Does that make any sense? It will after you read this book!

Twenty-five science projects and experiments to be done outside will spark kids’ creativity and help them develop science skills through hands-on learning.

A little boy who loves to find shapes in nature grows up to be one of America’s greatest architects, Frank Lloyd Wright.

As their makerspace project, the students in Yasmin’s second grade class are building a city: there are houses, a school, a church, even a castle, but Yasmin is not sure what to build–until inspiration strikes. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby.

Explains how to build a house from the ground up features six kinds of craftsmen and the 24 tools they use, accurately labeled. The answer to each inquiring refrain is revealed under a gatefold, seven in all, engaging the reader in an informative guessing game.