Kids

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Math Hacks for Scratch

Michael Mays

Push Scratch programming to the limits as you explore mathematical curiosities through hands-on coding projects.

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Ada & Zangemann

Matthias Kirschner; illustrated by Sandra Brandstätter

A modern fairy tale that conveys the joy of tinkering and calls for self-determined use of software.

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Python for Kids, 2nd Edition

Jason R. Briggs

The second edition of the best-selling Python for Kids—which brings you (and your parents) into the world of programming—has been completely updated to use the latest version of Python, along with tons of new projects!

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Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey

John Barnett

Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey is an exquisitely illustrated, beautifully adapted story that traces a key element of planetary life over billions of years.

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LEGO® Space Projects

Jeff Friesen

Features 52 galactically creative new models, with step-by-step instructions and full-color photography.

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Machine Learning for Kids

Dale Lane

Machine Learning for Kids pairs with a free online tool and the Scratch coding platform to teach you how to train machine-learning models and build your own AI projects.

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Arduino Workshop, 2nd Edition

John Boxall

Arduino Workshop, 2nd Edition covers the latest version of the homemade-electronics platform's open-source IDE, and updates dozens of projects with new hardware and cool features.

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Coding in the Classroom

Ryan Somma

For teachers and parents, Coding in the Classroom explains the benefits of computer science education and provides strategies to get kids coding!

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The Coding Workbook

Sam Taylor

Build a website with your pencil! The Coding Workbook empowers you to teach students the basics of web development without a computer.

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Scratch 3 Programming Playground

Al Sweigart

Learn to code video games at any age or skill level with Scratch 3 Programming Playground! Freshly updated for Scratch 3.0.

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Homemade Robots

Randy Sarafan

Homemade Robots is a coding-free guide to building 10 uniquely entertaining robots – using everyday materials and components.

25 Scratch Games for Kids

25 Scratch 3 Games for Kids

Max Wainewright

25 Scratch 3 Games for Kids teaches you to program in the wildly popular beginning programming language, Scratch, from the MIT Media Lab.

Micro:bit for Mad Scientists

Micro:bit for Mad Scientists

Simon Monk

Micro:bit for Mad Scientists includes 30 mad scientist–themed projects and experiments to teach STEM topics and coding with the BBC micro:bit.

Learn to Program with App Inventor

Learn to Program with App Inventor

Lyra Blizzard Logan

Learn to Program with App Inventor will teach you how to build mobile apps for Android devices with MIT App Inventor, a visual drag-and-drop programming language like Scratch.

Build a LEGO Mustang

Build a LEGO Mustang

Paweł “Sariel” Kmieć

Build a LEGO Mustang teaches you how to build an amazing LEGO Mustang with step-by-step instructions.

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The Official Scratch Coding Cards (Scratch 3.0)

Natalie Rusk and the Scratch Team

The Official Scratch Coding Cards (Scratch 3.0) is a deck of 76 activity cards that teaches kids to code with Scratch, a popular visual programming language.

LEGO BOOST Idea Book

The LEGO BOOST Idea Book

Yoshihito Isogawa

The LEGO BOOST Idea Book contains dozens of ideas for building simple robots with the LEGO BOOST set.

A Beginner's Guide to Circuits

A Beginner's Guide to Circuits

Øyvind Nydal Dahl

A Beginner's Guide to Circuits is the perfect first book for anyone ready to jump into the world of electronics and circuit design.

LEGO Neighborhood Book 2

The LEGO Neighborhood Book 2

Brian Lyles and Jason Lyles

The LEGO Neighborhood Book 2 -- instructions for building detailed LEGO models of neighborhoods with homes, stores, restaurants, barbershops, and more.

The Computer Science Activity Book

The Computer Science Activity Book

Christine Liu and Tera Johnson

The Computer Science Activity Book is a simple, hands-on, coloring book-like introduction to computer science concepts for non-technical readers.

The LEGO BOOST Activity Book

The LEGO BOOST Activity Book

Daniele Benedettelli

The LEGO BOOST Activity Book will show you (in full color) how to build and code LEGO creations that move, explore their environment, lift objects, and more.

Learn Robotics with Raspberry Pi

Learn Robotics with Raspberry Pi

Matt Timmons-Brown

In Learn Robotics with Raspberry Pi shows how to build robots with the Raspberry Pi microcomputer and a few easy-to-get components -- no prior experience necessary!

The LEGO Zoo

The LEGO Zoo

Jody Padulano

The LEGO Zoo is a children's book that shows how to build 50 simple models of LEGO animals using only standard LEGO parts that every LEGO fan has in their collection.

Make Your Own Twine Games!

Make Your Own Twine Games!

Anna Anthropy

Make Your Own Twine Games! is a playful, kid-friendly introduction to game development using Twine, a free online scripting tool for creative storytelling.

Make Your Own Scratch Games!

Make Your Own Scratch Games!

Anna Anthropy

Make Your Own Scratch Games! is a playful, kid-friendly introduction game development using the Scratch programming language.

Make Your Own PuzzleScript Games!

Make Your Own PuzzleScript Games!

Anna Anthropy

Make Your Own PuzzleScript Games! is a playful, kid-friendly introduction to game development using PuzzleScript, a free online tool for creating puzzle games and platform games.

ScratchJr Coding Cards

ScratchJr Coding Cards

Marina Umaschi Bers and Amanda Sullivan

ScratchJr Coding Cards are a deck of 75 activity cards covering fun and exciting projects designed to educate young children with the visual programming language, ScratchJr.

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Make Your Own Pixel Art

Jennifer Dawe and Matthew Humphries

Make Your Own Pixel Art is an illustrated introduction to creating pixel art.

Coding with Minecraft

Coding with Minecraft

Al Sweigart

Coding with Minecraft is a hands-on introduction to coding that teaches how to program bots to do cool things in Minecraft.

Mission Python

Mission Python

Sean McManus

Mission Python will teach you how to program an adventure game in this hands-on, beginner-friendly introduction to coding in Python.

The LEGO Trains Book

The LEGO Trains Book

Holger Matthes

The LEGO Trains Book is an illustrated guide to the world of LEGO train building.

The Manga Guide to Microprocessors

The Manga Guide to Microprocessors

Michio Shibuya, Takashi Tonagi, and Office Sawa

The Manga Guide to Microprocessors is a comic guide to microprocessors, computer architecture, and digital operations.

Coding iPhone Apps for Kids

Coding iPhone Apps for Kids

Gloria Winquist and Matt McCarthy

Coding iPhone Apps for Kids teaches you how to program the iOS apps and games you’ve always wanted to make!

Geeky LEGO Crafts

Geeky LEGO Crafts

David Scarfe

Geeky LEGO Crafts is an irresistible collection of fun, quirky, and occasionally practical LEGO projects.

Beautiful Minecraft

Beautiful Minecraft

James Delaney

Beautiful Minecraft is a stunning collection of artwork created in the most unlikely of mediums.

The LEGO Animation Book

The LEGO Animation Book

David Pagano and David Pickett

The LEGO Animation Book is your step-by-step guide to making awesome stop-motion LEGO movies.

Tiny LEGO Wonders

Tiny LEGO Wonders

Mattia Zamboni

Tiny LEGO Wonders shows readers how to build tiny, imaginative models of vehicles, ships, aircraft, a space shuttle, and more using a minimum of parts.

The CS Detective

The CS Detective

Jeremy Kubica

The CS Detective is a fantasy whodunit for the digital age that introduces the concepts behind search algorithms and important data structures.

Learn to Program with Small Basic

Learn to Program with Small Basic

Majed Marji and Ed Price

Learn to Program with Small Basic is a playful introduction to the kid-friendly programming language created by Microsoft.

Electronics for Kids

Electronics for Kids

Øyvind Nydal Dahl

Electronics for Kids is a fun, hands-on introduction to electricity.

LEGO Power Functions Set

$49.95

The LEGO Power Functions Idea Books show off small projects to build with LEGO’s system of gears, motors, gadgets and other moving elements. Both books are filled with hundreds of buildable, clever mechanisms that demonstrate a key technique or mechanical principle. You'll get:

  • The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Vol. 1: Machines and Mechanisms
  • The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Vol. 2: Cars and Contraptions
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The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Vol. 1

Yoshihito Isogawa

With hundreds of full color photos of the author's elegant but clever contraptions, The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Vol. 1 is designed to inspire you.

The Official ScratchJr Book

Official ScratchJr Book

Marina Umaschi Bers and Mitchel Resnick

The Official ScratchJr Book is an easy-to-use, interactive hands-on guide for parents and teachers, written by the creators of ScratchJr.

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Medieval LEGO

Greyson J. Riley

Medieval LEGO is the fun way to learn about medieval history.

Beautiful LEGO: Wild!

Beautiful LEGO: Wild!

Mike Doyle

Beautiful LEGO: Wild! showcases amazing nature-inspired LEGO masterpieces from artists around the world.

Learn to Program with Minecraft

Learn to Program with Minecraft

Craig Richardson

Learn to Program with Minecraft will teach you the basics of Python programming while having fun with Minecraft!

Teach Your Kids to Code

Teach Your Kids to Code

Bryson Payne

Teach Your Kids to Code is a parent and teacher's guide to teaching basic programming and problem-solving skills.

Doing Math with Python

Doing Math with Python

Amit Saha

Doing Math with Python teaches you how to use Python as a tool to explore mathematics.

The LEGO Adventure Book, Vol. 3

The LEGO Adventure Book, Vol. 3

Megan H. Rothrock

Unleash your imagination with The LEGO Adventure Book, Volume 3. Learn to build a Renaissance house, classic movie theater, sushi, and more!

 The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Idea Book

The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Idea Book

Yoshihito Isogawa

The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Idea Book contains hundreds of ideas for building unique robotic and mechanical creations.

Incredible Technic: Amazing LEGO Cars, Trucks, Robots & More!

Incredible LEGO Technic

Paweł “Sariel” Kmieć

Enter a world of machines in Incredible LEGO Technic, a unique gallery of LEGO models with a technical twist.

Lauren Ipsum

Lauren Ipsum

Carlos Bueno

Lauren Ipsum is a whimsical illustrated journey filled with fun characters that bring logic and computer science puzzles to life.

The Incredible Plate Tectonics Comic

Incredible Plate Tectonics Comic

Kanani K.M. Lee and Adam Wallenta

The Incredible Plate Tectonics Comic is a wild adventure in earth science with Geo and his robot dog Rocky.

The LEGO Neighborhood Book

The LEGO Neighborhood Book

Brian Lyles and Jason Lyles

The LEGO Neighborhood Book is your guide to creating incredible LEGO buildings and cities.

Ruby Wizardry

Ruby Wizardry

Eric Weinstein

Ruby Wizardry is a modern-day fairy tale that teaches programming skills kids can use.

JavaScript for Kids

JavaScript for Kids

Nick Morgan

JavaScript for Kids is a lighthearted introduction to the JavaScript language and programming in general.

Learn to Program with Scratch

Learn to Program with Scratch

Majed Marji

Discover a step-by-step introduction to computer science as you create fun games, build science simulations, and more in Learn to Program with Scratch.

The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Laboratory

The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Laboratory

Daniele Benedettelli

The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Laboratory covers the essentials of making robots with LEGO's latest and greatest MINDSTORMS kit.

Beautiful LEGO

Beautiful LEGO

Mike Doyle

Full of masterful, mind-boggling LEGO® creations, Beautiful LEGO features the work of some of the most creative minds working in LEGO today.

Steampunk LEGO

Steampunk LEGO

Guy Himber

Filled with dirigibles and floating cities, penny-farthings and pirate ships, curiosities and robots galore, Steampunk LEGO is an illustrated collection of Victorian-era sci-fi treasures, all built from LEGO.

LEGO Space

LEGO Space

Peter Reid and Tim Goddard

Spaceships, orbital outposts, and new worlds come to life in LEGO Space. Come explore an incredible LEGO universe!

Build Your Own Website

Build Your Own Website

Nate Cooper, with art by Kim Gee

Build Your Own Website is a fun, beginner-friendly comic book guide to creating a website with HTML, CSS, and WordPress.

LEGO Build-It Book, Vol. 2

The LEGO Build-It Book, Vol. 2

Nathanaël Kuipers and Mattia Zamboni

The LEGO® Build-It Book, Vol. 2 contains step-by-step, full color instructions for building 10 more amazing LEGO cars, trucks, and things-that-go-vroom!

LEGO Build-It Book, Vol. 1

The LEGO Build-It Book, Vol. 1

Nathanaël Kuipers and Mattia Zamboni

The LEGO® Build-It Book, Vol. 1 has step-by-step, full-color instructions for building 10 LEGO vehicles. Choose your ride and build it!

The LEGO Adventure Book, Vol. 2

The LEGO Adventure Book, Vol. 2

Megan H. Rothrock

Learn to build sleek spaceships, fire-breathing dragons, and much more with The LEGO Adventure Book, Vol. 2!

The LEGO Adventure Book, Vol. 1

The LEGO Adventure Book, Vol. 1

Megan H. Rothrock

Whether you're brand new to LEGO or have been building for years, unleash your imagination with The LEGO Adventure Book! Learn to build robots, trains, medieval villages, and much more.

Wonderful Life with the Elements

Wonderful Life with the Elements

Bunpei Yorifuji

From the brilliant mind of Japanese artist Bunpei Yorifuji comes Wonderful Life with the Elements, an illustrated guide to the periodic table that gives chemistry a friendly face.

The Cult of LEGO

The Cult of LEGO

John Baichtal and Joe Meno

In The Cult of LEGO, Wired's GeekDad blogger John Baichtal and BrickJournal founder Joe Meno take you on a magnificent, illustrated tour of the LEGO® community, its people, and their creations.

The LEGO Technic Idea Book Complete Set

$49.95
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LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines

The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines

Yoshihito Isogawa

With hundreds of full color photos of the author's original creations, The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines is designed to inspire you. Also check out the other books in the series, Wheeled Wonders and Fantastic Contraptions!

Forbidden Lego

Forbidden LEGO

Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley

Forbidden LEGO introduces you to the type of free-style building that LEGO's master builders do for fun in the back room.