Finlay is a real dreamer, and he’s always getting things wrong. But when he brings his puppy into class it looks like he might have done the right thing after all. The Reading Ladder series helps children to enjoy learning to read. It features well-loved authors, classic characters and favourite topics, so that children will find something to excite and engage them in every title they pick…
Progress has led to more exciting inventions in this title of the Crafty Inventions series. Find out why astronomers developed the astrolabe, learn how military signals led to the invention of the kite and how the abacus made arithmetic easy. Then get your bearings with your own working compass, look through a pinhole camera, rig-up a model boat and cast a jelly hand.
From a new generation of cell phones that send pictures and short movies, to plasma TV screens, supercomputers and the worlwide web, technological progress has led to more exciting inventions in this title.
Model your own inventions from a miniature flush loo to a cracking pop-gun and a dragon with battery-powered eyeballs.