Picture Books About Inventors and Inventions

Now and Ben: The Modern Inventions of Ben Franklin by Gene Baretta

A Weed is a Flower: THe Life of George Washington Carver by Aliki

Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor by Emily Arnold McCully

The Wondrous Whirligig: The Wright Brothers' First Flying Machine by Andrew Glass

Books About Inventors and Inventions for Kids (Grades 3-6 Interest)

Three Cheers for Inventors by Marcia Williams

Always Inventing: A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell by Tom Matthews

Eureka: Poems About Inventors by Joyce Sidman

How Nearly Everything Was Invented by the Brainwaves by Jilly Macleod

Queen of Inventions: How the Sewing Machine Changed the World by Laurie Carlson

So You Want to Be An Inventor by Judith St. George

Inventing the Future: a Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison by Marfe Ferguson Delano

Thomas Edison for Kids by Laurie Carlson

Books About Inventors and Inventions for Kids (Grades 5-8 Interest)

Amazing Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself by Maxine Anderson

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Catherine Thimmesh

What a Great Idea: Inventions That Changed the World by Stephen M. Tomecek

Eureka!: Great Inventions and How They Happened by Richard Platt