As Mazie delights in building all sorts of fabulous inventions to solve household problems, kids will see how simple machines work.

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.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
Sheryl Haft (sherylhaft.com) founded Let’s Engineer!, a pre-school and elementary after-school program that teaches engineering principles through design and invention-building. Sheryl’s love of tinkering began by working in the garage with her dad, creating patented inventions. She is the author of other joyful, imaginative books: I Love You, Blankie, Baby Boo, I Love You and Goodnight Bubbala. She and her family live in New York City and Wyoming.

Author Residence: New York City and Wilson, Wyoming

Jeremy Holmes (jeremyholmesstudio.com) is an internationally renowned children’s book illustrator. His picture books include There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (winner of the BolognaRagazzi Opera Prima Award), Poem-mobiles (by J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian), The Eye that Never Sleeps (by Marissa Moss), and Road Trip (by Claudia Friddell). He and his family live in Pennsylvania.