A Making Bibliography

Pop / Meghan McCarthy. -- New York : : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,, 2010.. With historical facts, the book tells the true story of how bubble gum was invented by Walter Diemer, who was an accountant at the Fleer Corporation, a factory in Philadelphia, in the late 1920s. Tape it & make it / Richela Fabian Morgan. -- Hauppauge, NY : : Barron's,, 2012.. Offers dozens of creative ideas and easy-to-follow instructions for making everything from wallets and coin purses to novelty neckties and household decorations out of duct tape.-- My first guide to paper airplanes / Christopher L Harbo. -- North Mankato, Minnesota : : Capstone Press,, [2015]. "Step-by-step photo-illustrated instructions show how to fold a variety of simple paper airplanes"-- Anything is possible / Giulia Belloni, William Anselmi, and Marco Trevisan. -- Toronto, ON : : Owlkids,, [2013]. Up and down tale about a determined sheep and skeptical wolf on a quest to build a flying machine. Violet the pilot / Steve Breen. -- New York : : Dial Books for Young Readers,, 2008.. Young Violet's only friend is her dog, Orville, until one of her homemade flying machines takes her to the rescue of a Boy Scout troop in trouble. I face the wind / Vicki Cobb, and Julia Gorton. -- New York : : HarperCollins,, [2003]. Introduces the characteristics and actions of the wind through simple hands-on activities. Crafty Chloe / Kelly S DiPucchio, and Heather Ross. -- New York : : Atheneum Books for Young Readers,, c2012.. Chloe is very good at sewing and crafts and when her best friend's birthday approaches, she not only creates a fabulous gift, she also saves the day for a classmate who had been unkind to her. Papa's mechanical fish / Candace Fleming, and Boris Kulikov. -- New York : : Margaret Ferguson Books,, 2013.. In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based. Awesome Dawson / Chris Gall. -- New York : : Little, Brown and Company,, 2013.. All his life, Dawson has been inventing things, repairing toys in unusual ways, and helping clean up his neighborhood by reusing discarded objects, but when his Vacu-Maniac malfunctions it is his friend Mooey whose brainpower saves the day. Meet the Dinotrux / Chris Gall. -- New York : : Little, Brown and Company,, 2015.. Introduces the part-dinosaur, part-truck monsters called Dinotrux, including Dozeratops, Digasaurus, Velocitractor, and Tyrannosaurus Trux. How to bicycle to the moon to plant sunflowers / Mordicai Gerstein. -- New York : : Roaring Brook Press,, 2013.. Too busy with school, soccer, and other activities, a young boy who wants to cheer up the sad, lonely moon presents the reader with a step- by-step plan for becoming the the first human to bicycle to the moon. Full color. Dreaming up / Christy Hale. -- New York : : Lee & Low Books, Inc.,, 2012.. 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"--Provided by publisher. Marvelous Mattie / Emily Arnold McCully. -- New York : : Farrar, Straus, Giroux,, 2006.. Mattie Knight loved to make things ranging from a foot warmer for her mother or toys for her older brothers. Or, when she was 12, a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off looms and hurting workers. Later, Mattie invented a machine that could cut and glue the square- bottomed paper bags we still use today. Meet the woman known as "the Lady Edison." Earmuffs for everyone / Meghan McCarthy. -- New York : : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,, [2015]. "This picture-book biography of Chester Greenwood explores the invention of the earmuffs and the patenting process"-- 3, 2, 1, go / Emily Arnold McCully. -- New York : : Holiday House,, 2015.. Told she cannot step over the line to play school with the older girls, Min builds a catapult and flies over it, instead. Monkey with a tool belt / Chris Monroe. -- Minneapolis, MN : : Carolrhoda Books,, c2008.. Clever monkey Chico Bon Bon builds lots of things with his many tools, and when he is captured by an organ grinder, he uses them to help him escape and get back home.

Let's make faces / Hanoch Piven. -- New York : : Atheneum Books for Young Readers,, c2013..

Not a stick / Antoinette Portis. -- New York : : HarperCollinsPublishers,, [2008]. An imaginative young pig shows some of the many things that a stick can be.

Coppernickel, the invention / Wouter van Reek. -- New York : : Enchanted Lion Books,, 2008..

Going places / Peter Reynolds, and Paul A Reynolds. -- New York : : Atheneum Books for Young Readers,, [2014]. Rafael has looked forward to the Going Places contest and builds his go-cart from a kit in record time, but his neighbor, Maya, has a much more interesting and creative idea for her entry and Rafael decides to help.

Full steam ahead / Paul A Reynolds, and Peter Reynolds. -- Watertown, MA : : Charlesbridge,, [2014]. Twin mice Sydney and Simon learn about the water cycle and use science, technology, engineering, arts, and math to solve the problem of their stuck window and thirsty flowers. The most magnificent thing / Ashley Spires, and Yasemin Ucar. -- Toronto, ON : : Kids Can Press,, [2014]. A little girl has a wonderful idea. With the help of her canine assistant, she is going to make the most magnificent thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. But making the most magnificent thing turns out to be harder than she thinks.

If I built a house / Chris Van Dusen. -- New York : : Dial Books for Young Readers,, c2012.. Imaginative Jack describes the kind of house he would build--one with a racetrack, a flying room, and a gigantic slide.

Randy Riley's really big hit / Chris Van Dusen. -- Somerville, Mass. : : Candlewick Press,, 2012.. Randy Riley, a science genius who loves baseball but is not very good at it, needs to use both his interests to save his town from a giant fireball that is heading their way.

The whale in my swimming pool / Joyce Wan. -- New York : : Farrar Straus Giroux,, 2015.. A young boy discovers a whale in his pool and tries everything he can think of to get it out.

Galimoto / Karen Lynn Williams, and Catherine Stock. -- [S.l.] : : Spoken Arts,, p1990.. Walking through his village, a young African boy finds the materials to make a special toy.

What do you do with an idea / Kobi Yamada, Mae Besom, Sarah Forster, M. H Clark, Amelia Riedler, and Julie Flahiff. -- [Seattle, WA] : : Compendium Kids,, [2013]. This is the story of one brilliant idea and the child who helps to bring it into the world. As the child's confidence grows, so does the idea itself. And then, one day, something amazing happens.