Be a maker!

"This ... title allows budding young engineers, architects, and designers to use their personal creativity to design communities and their spaces. Through engaging photographs, clear explanations, and realistic activities, readers will be inspired to design parks and other elements that make communities enjoyable and accessible for all people. Opportunities to take plans from paper to screen build digital skills, making projects diverse and multi-level for all types of readers."--Provided by publisher.

"... inspires readers to get active, use their creativity, and collaborate to explore new ideas in the world of sports. Engaging activities, inspiring biographies, and clear photographs help readers create new and entertaining sports games and activities."--Provided by publisher.

Introduces kids to the history of graphic design and advertising, and offers a number of projects they can do to make art and learn about graphic design themselves.

Introduces kids to the history of games, like cards, dice, and board games, and offers a number of projects they can do to make and learn about games themselves.

Introduces kids to the history of fashion design and trends offers a number of projects they can do to make and learn about fashion items themselves.

Introduces kids to the history of animation and cinematography and offers a number of projects they can do to make and learn about animation themselves.

Describes how music works in harmony with the Maker movement.

Introduces kids to the history of robotics and offers a number of projects they can do to make and learn about robots themselves.

"Readers interested in crafting and designing patterns and structures will be inspired to create 'Maker' projects using paper--a medium readily accessible to any classroom or library. Kids will learn about popular trends and possibilities in paper engineering, and how great engineers in many different fields often visualize and create their most amazing projects in paper models first. Readers are encouraged to experiment with their own ideas and create products that are unique to their visions."--Provided by publisher.

"Instructs young readers on how to shape wooden objects based on their own, unique ideas. Kids will explore this exciting and popular field by learning a few basic techniques of woodworking and what tools to use, which they can then experiment with in safe and accessible projects. 'Makers and Shakers' sidebars introduce kids to furniture makers and builders and to different styles in woodworking."--Provided by publisher.