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My Amazing Inventions Sketchbook

50 Awesome Drawing Activities for Young Inventors
Brief Description
Dream up your own amazing inventions with this fantastically creative sketchbook! My Amazing Inventions Sketchbook is packed with Andrew Rae's incredible 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...... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Dream up your own amazing inventions with this fantastically creative sketchbook!

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Dream up your own amazing inventions with this fantastically creative sketchbook!

My Amazing Inventions Sketchbook is packed with Andrew Rae's incredible 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 mobile phone using a hamster!

There is plenty of inspiration to get kids' minds going, and plenty of room to add their own awesome inventions to the mix. They can design the best beach buggy ever, create a brand-new candy to share with the world, or even draw a transformer dinosaur!

Includes a patent certificate for their very own amazing invention.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781510232075

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 September 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Laurence King Publishing

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Andrew Rae

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 560g

Pages: 128

About the Author

Lisa Regan (Author)
Lisa Regan studied English and Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and gained a postgraduate diploma in Publishing at West Herts College. She has written over 400 published titles, including picture books, puzzle books, children's reference, and curriculum-linked workbooks. She lives in Colchester, UK, with her sons, and a husband with an encyclopaedic knowledge of soccer.

Her work ranges from magazine-style books on fashion and sleepovers, to highly illustrated STEM titles that fit into schools and libraries lists. Her favorite topics are wildlife and geography, but she also has huge fun writing rhyming tales.

Andrew Rae (Illustrator)
Andrew Rae is an illustrator who uses simple hand rendered lines and a combination of paper, felt pens, watercolour, ipad, iMac, and Wacom pads and screens to render irreverent images of characters, ghouls, robots, machines, and creatures that are used in an editorial, publishing, advertising, animation, and mural context. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine and has worked for many clients worldwide including Apple, The London Science Museum, Google and The Guardian.

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