'The Story of Inventions' by Catherine Barr and Steve Williams is an engaging non-fiction book that introduces readers to remarkable inventions throughout history. With concise text and vibrant illustrations, it provides a perfect overview of significant innovations, making it accessible and informative for young readers. From simple machines to modern technology, this book offers a fascinating journey through human ingenuity.

A lovely book yet again from Quarto Publishing Group, The Story of Invention begins with what is considered the most important invention in the history of mankind-the wheel- and goes on to tell the story behind the invention of various everyday things ranging from paper to the internet.

Written interestingly, these nuggets of informations and how we move from one invention to the other in the book, do not sound or read any less than an adventure. The drawings are fantastic bringing these inventions to life.

An interesting book that should be able to create interest in children, The Story of Inventions makes for a great resource.

This is a delightful look at the development of inventions throughout history. It starts with things such as the wheel and fireworks but then moves to a more time based look at things. It is aimed at younger children and will act as a good basic look. Excellent for use in schools.

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It started with a wheel, and there goes the compact story of the world we live in. Who made papers, who invent plane. What makes people create cars. What is a lodestone. And so many more. Very interesting read for kids who are curious about the stuffs we have today.

WIth cute drawings, and easy to understand text, this is an useful and informative book.

As future science teacher, I see this book like a beautiful didactical instrument for childrens. If you are parent, you want to read this book with your childs. It's so cute and interesting.

I will recomend this book.

I liked this little picture book because it is a good introduction for children to the most famous and important inventions .
It also has beautiful illustrations that accompany the text of the book.

For the most part, I like this book but the extreme unexpected turn it takes is jarring and almost feels like a stealth attack. It's not that I don't agree with the statements about saving the Earth, but simply that the book doesn't start out in a way that seems to be going in that direction. If that was the author's goal, why not be upfront about it from page one? It's kind of sprinkled into some of the inventions, but not enough to prepare for the end. I just don't think this is a well thought out book. I liked how it started out and was interested to see how different inventions altered and improved over time; I wish the author would've stuck with that and saved the rest for another book -- or kept the scaled down version of comments through to the end.

The Story of Inventions takes the reader through a timeline beginning at 3500 BCE until today. It tells the origins of inventions we may take for granted in 2020 including the wheel, a compass and the clock. Just imagine where we would be without wheels?!

The illustrations are bright and eye catching and assist in telling the story, this allows each double page spread to have a minimum amount of text which is perfect for children. There’s a glossary in the back for discussing unfamiliar words.

This is a great addition for any curious minds in your life.

Thankyou to Netgalley and Quarto Publishing for a copy in exchange for an honest review.

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This book is a levely introduction to inventions we know well and perhaps take for granted, like the wheel, electricity and computers. In a simple, effective and easy to read fashion, we see the wheel on Roman chariots through to the wheels on cars. This would be an excellent book for kids interested in science from a young age, as there is small amounts of text with fun and colourful illustrations.

I loved that the book also talked about how fantastic plastic can be but how we now need to ensure we protect the environment and reduce the amount of plastic we use.

War is mentioned but balanced with the sentence that world leaders and countries work together to ensure peace in the world.

I enjoyed browsing the pages and reading more about the inventions we rely upon so much and think it would make an excellent addition to classrooms and school libraries.

Science has chay the way we interact with each other and with nature.
As it is with everything their are both positive and negative effects of science.
Positive for human beings but bad for nature and ecology, which is indirectly bad for humans too.
This book Introduces in a simple graphic novel format all significant scientific inventions of past.
Pictures are good, not exceptional. Artist has tried to include all significant things in limited space.
That can be little hocus pocus at few pages.
A good book to Spark interst of young kids in science.
Their is also introduction to adverse effects of industrialization.
A concise primer for awareness towards science.
Thanks netgalley and publisher for review copy.

While inventions is an appealing and interesting topic, this book moves too quickly from one thing to another for young readers to grasp what is being offered. The text is very brief and the illustrations are overpowering. It would be helpful if they worked together to support understanding.

A good introductory book for children on inventions. It follows a historical timeline with bright and interesting illustrations. It isn't very long which should keep the attention of younger children and does bring in some of the downsides to technology (ex. war).

Hmmm… I quite enjoyed this, and I can see the merit in what it aims to achieve, but I'm not sure how permanent and wonderful the educational results of it might be. It aims, with each double-page spread, to convey through cartoonish illustrations and just three paragraphs, the basic historical birth of something we take for granted, and get us right up to date. So the smallpox/cowpox equation gives us modern medicine, the potter's wheel gives us an electric car, and a Chinese mush leads through the first printing press to modern use of paper and the written word. The pictures do what they can to convey all points of the narrative, and to link all the different time zones each subject visits, but I just think things are too brief and almost inconsequential as a result. Also, towards the end the millennia over which our stories have taken place has shrunk (in accord with the quickening of pace in our inventiveness, perhaps) – and ecological lessons get given to us instead. I might be wrong and this format might be a wonder for some young reader's learning, in which case I'm certainly most happy. But to me it felt like too much was being attempted at too basic a level to really amount to much. Two and a half stars.