ReadItDaddy's First Book of the Week - Week Ending 15th November 2019: "Inventor Lab" with a foreword by Dr Lucy Rogers (Dorling Kindersley)

Our first book of the week this week will bring out the inner science geek in you and your kids, with a series of truly fantastic fully functioning maker projects for all ages and abilities (with quite a few requiring adult supervision, so roll up your sleeves and get stuck in!)

"Inventor Lab" with a foreword by Dr Lucy Rogers, is a superb and weighty book filled with a ton of projects designed to not only tax your brainpower, but show you something of how real-life gadgets and machines work and function.

Inside the book you'll find everything from cool noisemakers, fan-powered electronic cars, and even a remote controlled snake!

The book begins by showing you some of the most common components and tools in a maker kit, most of which can be obtained fairly cheaply (in fact some time ago we picked up a simple electronics kit for less than a tenner that had most of the electronic components listed in this book - add to that some essential tools and you'll be well on your way to making some of these).

A simple motor-powered breadboard car ready to speed off across your floor!

As we said at the top of the review, it's best to get an adult to help with some of these - as soldering and using glue guns is probably something left to responsible grown-ups, but kids will definitely enjoy helping out and they will most definitely enjoy playing with the makes once they're done.

Making a matchbox microphone

Above all, each make and experiment shows how a real-world gadget's inner workings function, a great way to teach kids about electronics and resistors, capacitors, transistors and other electronic goodies.

Sum this book up in a sentence: A truly brilliant 'makes' books for advanced science geeks, each of the projects is brilliantly designed to teach kids how real-world gadgets work.

"Inventor Lab" with a foreword by Dr Lucy Rogers, is out now published by Dorling Kindersley (kindly supplied for review).