MAZIE'S AMAZING MACHINES

Learn all about how simple machines work as Mazie delights in building all sorts of fabulous inventions to solve household problems.

Mazie McGear loves to engineer! Whenever she encounters a problem, she turns on her imagination and starts drawing and building--think blink, ribble scribble, bing bang boom! Need a more convenient way to feed the dog? No problem! Mazie invents the Food-o-Matic. Mom needs help carrying boxes? No worries! Mazie makes her a Roly-Ramp. You can always count on Mazie to invent a machine that will make life easier--although her brother, Jake, isn't too thrilled with her Waker-Upper Rocket. But no worries. Engineering is so cool that before long he can't help but get into the invention action too!

Featuring dynamic illustrations and a fun fold-out spread, this is a book that's sure to inspire budding engineers while celebrating creative out-of-the-box thinking.

Sheryl Haft is the founder of Let's Engineer!, an elementary after school program that teaches engineering principles through design and invention. She is also a teacher volunteer with pARTners Jackson Hole, a program that inspires a passion for the arts through K-12 education. She is the author of Baby Boo, I Love You, Goodnight Bubbala, and I Love You, Blankie. She, her husband, and their daughters divide their time between New York City and Wilson, Wyoming.

Jeremy Holmes is an internationally renowned children's book illustrator whose work has received numerous awards and starred reviews. His books include There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Poem-mobiles, The Templeton Twins, The Secrets of the Dragon Tomb, The Emperor of Mars, What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World, and The Eye that Never Sleeps. He won the prestigious BolognaRagazzi Opera Prima Award for his debut book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. Jeremy lives in Abington, Pennsylvania, with his wife and four children.