Brainstorm!: The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors

I love anything besides death and destruction that can inspire/captivate kids. This shows kids are creative and people too. They should be encouraged and not sidelined because they are children. Who knows, maybe there is an inventor in your family!

Great book, my daughter needed it for a book report

This book was purchased to work on a school project involving names of inventors. It was very useful and turned out to be a great purchase for other projects!

Perfect condition

Completely satisfied.

A great read for my youngest son who finds all little known facts interesting.The book is easy to follow & is interesting for parents & kids!

Reason for Reading: Came with our history curriculum. Read aloud to my ds, a biography at a time over a period of time.A collection of short biographies featuring kid inventors, focusing on what they invented and how it came to be. Includes such inventions as earmuffs, coloured car wax, the Popsicle, water skis, resealable cereal box tops and others.Neither of us was particularly thrilled with this book. The inventions I've mentioned above were the ones that ds enjoyed most. A lot of the other inventions were things he couldn't care less about like tufted bedspreads or couldn't relate to such as the rotary steam engine. Ds was keen when I started reading a story about a real kid (an 8yo or a 13yo) but some of these bios are about 17 or 18 year old's and that is pushing it a bit for a 10yo to consider a kid. Then some bios often were about how the inventor got the idea as a kid but didn't bring it to fruition until they were an adult which I think is cheating in regards to the title of the book. Also any mechanical or engineering inventions such as the electrical TV and the rotary steam engine were very detailed with scientific specifics which made the 10 yo's eyes glaze over. By the time we got to the last 5 stories he was begging me not to read the book anymore so I read them quickly in bed one night to if they were worth trudging through and I couldn't find any reason he needed to hear them so we ended the read-aloud there. I wouldn't recommend the book.