How to foster a budding inventor

Today sees the start of National Science & Engineering Week in the UK. I’ll be celebrating it with books of course, and so the focus for the next couple of posts here on the blog is… INVENTIONS! This afternoon I’m in school doing a book+craft session based on Wouter van Reek‘s Coppernickel: The Invention. After [...]

Dirigibles, cartier watches and zappy zoomers

If I were to ask you who was the inventor of human flight, how would you answer? Would you rack your brain for school memories and then come up with the Wright brothers? Would you be surprised and interested if you then found out that perhaps it wasn’t the Wright brothers after all, but someone [...]

Robots in the rain

Autumn has arrived with a vengeance in our part of the world. Jumping in puddles is fun, but we’ve had a few days where venturing outside has been the last thing we wanted to do. Still, when you’re stuck indoors it can be extra cozy and extra inviting for an additional story or two on [...]

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