My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook: 50 Awesome Drawing Activities for Young Inventors youth published by the Humane Society

published by the Humane Society of the United States

★ Caldecott medalist Erin Stead's layers of oil ink and colored pencil weave a translucent moonlit spell around the graphite-sketched characters

He works out of his 1920s home in Cleveland Heights

I was absolutely blown away by his two recent books - Snowy Owl and Great Gray Owl

My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook: 50 Awesome Drawing Activities for Young Inventors youth published by the Humane SocietyDo you have some crazy inventions up your sleeve?! This book is jam packed with Andrew Rae's amazing drawings showing all sorts of real inventions that seem too weird to work. How about a dog umbrella? A submarine that looks like a plane or even a shark. A swimming machine where you don't get wet? A car wash for people? Someone has even made a device to charge your phone using a hamster! There is plenty of inspiration to get kids' minds going, and