Table of Contents

Welcome to science and inventions; Inventing the wheel; How to draw a submarine; Invention tech. paper; 11 pieces of armour; Extreme close-up; off!; Motor car mix-up; Sticker solar system; Cars of the future; Experimenting with light; Computer whizz; Web designer; Made in the Stone Age; Colour spinners; X-ray vision; Armour plated; Pencil case inventions; Test tube trouble; Full steam ahead; Wired for sound; Ingenious inventions; Plastic fantastic; Robot workshop; Moving pictures; One of a kind; Under the microscope Crazy cans; Fun phone calls; Firework fun; Flip book; Wakey, wakey!; Silent movie story; Paper plane; An amazing discovery; Old and new; Science news; incredible inventor; Whirling helicopter; Big idea; Crazy science show; Great inventions and Discoveries game; Certificate.

About the Author

Ruth Thomson is a prize-winning children's author, who specializes in writing art, literacy and history books. She has written several children's titles for the National Gallery in London, activity packs for the Tate and a book about war posters for the Imperial War Museum, as well as educational books on the art of portraits, landscapes, still life and other topics for major educational publishers. She has also written a children's biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Ruth divides her time between East Sussex and France and enjoys travelling, walking and stone carving.