Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions: You Can Build Yourself [Paperback]

Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourselfintroduces readers to the life, world, and incredible mind of Leonardo da Vinci through hands-on building projects that explore his invention ideas. Most of Leonardo's inventions were never made in his lifetime—they remained sketches in his famous notebooks.Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourselfshows you how to bring these ideas to life using common household supplies. Detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and templates for creating each project combine with historical facts and anecdotes, biographies and trivia about the real-life models for each project. Together they give kids a first-hand look into
the amazing mind of one the world’s greatest inventors.

Lauri Berkenkamp is the author of six books for kids. Writing under the pen name Maxine Anderson she has writtenAmazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself, which was excerpted in the New York Times Book Review and Christian Science Monitor, chosen as the #7 BookSense Children’s Pick for Summer 2006 and named Book of the Year by the Society for School Librarians International in 2006;Great Civil War Projects You Can Build Yourself, which was excerpted in Boys’ Life magazine and called “a fascinating gem of a book” by the New York Times Book Review;Explore Spring, andExplore Winter, which were chosen as Parents’ Choice Recommended Books for 2007,Discover the Amazon, as well asDiscover the Oceans.

The New York Times Book Review
Anderson regales us with tales of Leonardo's brilliant, often mischievous nature, and the nearly unfathomable range of his inventions.

School Library Journal
A welcome addition to schools

Old Schoolhouse Magazine
Will keep the kids occupied with constructive activities and is sure to spur on their own creative iló=