Goodnow Kids Book Recommendations

Gearticks May Challenge: Egg Drop Eggstravagnaza!

The Gearticks Robotics Club promotes monthly STEMtastic Challenges to encourage learning about a variety of Engineering and Science subjects. Each challenge is unveiled on the 1st of each month! Check out the following books to help you explore this month’s topic! Click on the title to bring you directly to our online catalog!

Picture Books:

Egg drop by Mini Grey

Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty; illustrated by David Roberts

Physics:

Engineered!: engineering design at work by Shannon Hunt; [illustrated by] James Gulliver Hancock

Experimenting with physics by John Farndon

Forces and motion science fair projects, revised and expanded using the scientific method by Robert Gardner

Experiments with motion by Susan H. Gray

Cardboard box engineering: cool, inventive projects for tinkerers, makers & future scientists by Jonathan Adolph

Flight by Ian Graham

History and Biography:

Mars science lab engineer Diana Trujillo by Kari Cornell

The flying girl: how Aida de Acosta learned to soar by Margarita Engle; illustrated by Sara Palacios

Wilbur and Orville Wright, young fliers by Augusta Stevenson ; illustrated by Robert Doremus

You wouldn’t want to be on the first flying machine! : a high-soaring ride you’d rather not take by written by Ian Graham; illustrated by David Antram

PREVIOUS CHALLENGE RESOURCES:

April Challenge: Bottle Rockets

The Chemistry of Cola by Dr. Jamie Gallagher

The book of terrifyingly awesome technology by Sean Connolly

Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s super-soaking stream of inventions written by Chris Barton; illustrated by Don Tate

Spaceships and rockets by Deborah Lock (Easy Reader)

Rockets and satellites by Marcia Zappa

Professor Astro Cat’s space rockets by Dr. Dominic Walliman & Ben Newman

Mighty mission machines: from rockets to rovers by Dave Williams, MD, and Loredana Cunti ; art by Theo Krynauw

Hidden figures: the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space by Margot Lee Shetterly (Collective Biography)

Rocket to the moon! by Don Brown (Graphic Novel)

Star Wars maker lab by Liz Lee Heinecke and Cole Horton

Machines in motion: the amazing history of transportation by Tom Jackson; illustrated by Chris Mould

March Challenge: Building Bridges!

Bridges and Engineering:

Bridges: an introduction to ten great bridges and their designers by Didier Cornille

Bridges: amazing structures to design, build & test by Carol A. Johmann and Elizabeth J. Rieth ; illustrations by Michael Kline

Bridges are to cross by Philemon Sturges ; illustrated by Giles Laroche

Building a bridge by JoAnn Early Macken

Built to last: building America’s amazing bridges, dams, tunnels, and skyscrapers by George Sullivan

A Book of Bridges: here to there and me to you written by Cheryl Keely ; illustrated by Celia Krampien

Where is the Brooklyn Bridge? by Megan Stine

This bridge will not be gray story by Dave Eggers

Building by Andrew Haslam ; written by David Glover

Engineered! Engineering design at work by Shannon Hunt

Secret engineer: how Emily Roebling built the Brooklyn Bridge by Rachel Dougherty

How Emily saved the bridge: the story of Emily Warren Roebling and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge by Frieda Wishinsky

Ellie, engineer by Jackson Pearce – 3rd grade Ellie sees herself as an engineer like her father and builds inventive projects for fun! (Fiction series)

Picture Books and More:

Go! go! go! stop! by Charise Mericle Harper

Kitten construction company: a bridge too fur by John Patrick Green

The bridge is up! by by Babs Bell

Little Red rolls away by Linda Whalen

The LEGO ideas book: unlock your imagination by Daniel Lipkowitz

Rosie Revere, engineer by Andrea Beaty

Tinyville town gets to work! by Brian Biggs – When there is a traffic jam on the Tinyville Town bridge, the residents decide to work together to build a new one (Picture book)

Bob the Builder: on site roads & bridges by HIT Entertainment ; HOT Animation Production (DVD)