Little Leonardo's Fascinating World of Engineering

by Bob Cooper

An introductory primer for kids focusing on the "E" portion of "STEAM" engineering.


With original Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci as inspiration, this exciting new volume in the Little Leonardo series introduces kids to many of the different types of engineering they can aspire to. Littles will learn how nine types of engineers design and build all sorts of things, from the tiny microcircuitry in your smartphone to large projects like dams and bridges that transform the very face of the planet.


Part of the Little Leonardo's Fascinating World Series.


Lexile: AD1130L

Greg Paprocki works full-time as an illustrator and book designer. He has illustrated several Curious George books, as well as the BabyLit alphabet books and The Big Book of Superheroes.


Bob Cooper is a veteran editor whose twenty-year career has found him working on everything from comic books to art, architecture, and children's titles.

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Reviews

[Silas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about engineering and each page is about different engineers. So for example, the first page is about mechanical engineers. My favorite type of engineer was probably civil engineering because they built this amazing thing where there's a boat, a car, a few garages. I like it because they built this giant car bridge that cars can actually go on and it's really cool. They also built a little pond and that's why they build the bridge. I also really liked electronic engineering. They create little circuits. It's really cool that they built circuits. The pictures in this book are really realistic but the only thing is kids are making the stuff. Like kids are driving excavators. I liked this book a lot and would recommend this book to child engineers.

[1 Page at a Time · Rating 5 out of 5]

We used this book for the Girl Scouts Think Like as Engineer Badges. The girls loved the projects and I loved the vocabulary and easy-to-follow construction steps.

[Brianna Stahly-Hale]

I think that this book would be good for both early and middle elementary school students because it is not super complex. However, it discusses and educates children about different types of engineers. It does have some complex grammar and words though. (assign. 11)