Oh, the Things They Invented!

Oh, the Things They Invented!
Author: Bonnie Worth
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 059312670X

From the first printing press to the World Wide Web—the Cat looks at inventors and inventions that have changed our lives! The Cat in the Hat goes back in time to meet with the masterminds of more than a dozen inventions that made a major impact on our lives today—from famous figures like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright brothers to lesser-known ones like Garrett Morgan, Mary Anderson, and Tim Berners-Lee. Children will learn basic information about each invention, as well as fascinating facts like how Guttenberg’s famous printing machine was made from an old wine press, how a steaming teakettle may have inspired the creation of the steam engine, and how table salt changed the history of photography. Ideal for supporting the Common Core State Standards, and a natural for fans of the hit PBS Kids show The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, this is a great way to introduce beginning readers to science!

Oh, The Things You Can Do That Are Good for You

Oh, The Things You Can Do That Are Good for You
Author: Tish Rabe
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0593126505

Laugh and learn with fun facts about eating healthy, being active, avoiding germs, and more—all told in Dr. Seuss’s beloved rhyming style and starring the Cat in the Hat! “I’m the Cat in the Hat and I’ve come here to say: to be healthy, be active—an hour each day.” The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series combines beloved characters, engaging rhymes, and Seussian illustrations to introduce children to non-fiction topics from the real world! Take care of yourself and learn why it’s important to: move your body every day eat colorful foods wash your hands and much more! Perfect for story time and for the youngest readers, Oh, the Things You Can Do That Are Good for You! also includes an index, glossary, and suggestions for further learning. Look for more books in the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series! Wacky Weather One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent Super-Dee-Dooper Book of Animal Facts Oh, the Pets You Can Get!

Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (Mis)adventures in Flight

Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (Mis)adventures in Flight
Author: Pablo Bernasconi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2005-05-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547562063

Captain Arsenio was a curious man who liked, more than anything, to tinker and explore. One day in 1782, he decided that he would put his unusual skills to work in a most ambitious way: he would build a flying machine. Despite a hodgepodge of materials (and a total unawareness of the laws of physics), Captain Arsenio aimed to get his feet off the ground and his head in the clouds—temporarily, at least. But would any of his crazy inventions ever achieve flight? In this hilarious fictional account, Pablo Bernasconi imagines a legend in the making—a retired cheesemaker and scuba diver turned inventor who sets off to fly with the birds, in spite of himself.

The Thinga-ma-jigger is Coming Today! (Dr. Seuss/Cat in the Hat)

The Thinga-ma-jigger is Coming Today! (Dr. Seuss/Cat in the Hat)
Author: Tish Rabe
Publisher: RH Childrens Books
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2012-07-24
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0449818985

The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! makes its Little Golden Books debut in this rollicking rhymed story introducing the cast of the new PBS Kids television show! There’s the Cat (of course), Sally and Nick, Things One and Two, the Fish, and the miraculously malleable Thinga-ma-jigger—the vehicle that transports the characters on their adventures on, under, and above the Earth! For $3.99, this is the perfect sturdy little hardcover book to introduce readers to the new show.

The Boo-Boos That Changed the World

The Boo-Boos That Changed the World
Author: Barry Wittenstein
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1632895579

Did you know Band-Aids were invented by accident?! And that they weren't mass-produced until the Boy Scouts gave their seal of approval? 1920s cotton buyer Earle Dickson worked for Johnson & Johnson and had a klutzy wife who often cut herself. The son of a doctor, Earle set out to create an easier way for her to bandage her injuries. Band-Aids were born, but Earle's bosses at the pharmaceutical giant weren't convinced, and it wasn't until the Boy Scouts of America tested Earle's prototype that this ubiquitous household staple was made available to the public. Soon Band-Aids were selling like hotcakes, and the rest is boo-boo history. "Appealingly designed and illustrated, an engaging, fun story" — Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW

Great Inventors and Their Inventions

Great Inventors and Their Inventions
Author: Frank Puterbaugh Bachman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1918
Genre: Inventions
ISBN:

Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight, recording and others have made the modern world what it is. But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them? As David Angus shows, they were very different quiet, boisterous, confident, withdrawn but all had a moment of vision allied to single-minded determination to battle through numerous prototypes and produced something that really worked. It is a fascinating account for younger listeners.

If I Ran the Rain Forest

If I Ran the Rain Forest
Author: Bonnie Worth
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593126467

The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick for an “umbrella-vator” ride through the understory, canopy, and emergent layers of a tropical rain forest, encountering a host of plants, animals, and native peoples along the way.

Invented by Animals

Invented by Animals
Author: Christiane Dorion
Publisher: Designed by Nature
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0711260656

Humans think they invent everything, but the fact is, us animals have invented ways of solving problems, making unbelievable materials, ways of getting around and working out how to survive on our own for millions of years. In this book you will meet the animal inventors who have shared their super inventing powers to make amazing things for humans.

Hedy's Folly

Hedy's Folly
Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307742954

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, Hedy's Folly tells a wild story of innovation that culminates in U.S. patent number 2,292,387 for a "secret communication system." Along the way Rhodes weaves together Hollywood’s golden era, the history of Vienna, 1920s Paris, weapons design, music, a tutorial on patent law and a brief treatise on transmission technology. Narrated with the rigor and charisma we've come to expect of Rhodes, it is a remarkable narrative adventure about spread-spectrum radio's genesis and unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world.

The Man Who Invented the Calendar

The Man Who Invented the Calendar
Author: B. J. Novak
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408705990

The Man Who Invented the Calendar provides a taster of the darkly hilarious treasures that can be found in B. J. Novak's One More Thing. We'll meet a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; find out how February got its name; and learn the truth about the icing on carrot cake.