top of page

Lots of our engineers have chosen stories to accompany their activities, and made other reading suggestions. Sometimes the engineering link is clear from the book and other times the matched activity will make the engineering link clear. Some engineers have even written their own comics. You can find the story suggestions and activity links below. Let us know what are your favourite engineering books, either from the below or other suggestions, and why via Facebook, Twitter or email.
Introduction to Engineering
Introduction to Engineering
ABCs of Engineering
Chris Ferrie and Sarah Kaise

Introduction to Engineering
My Mummy is an Engineer
Jason Bryan and Kerrine Bryan

Introduction to Engineering
Engineer in Training
Cath Ard

Introduction to Engineering
Rosie Revere, Engineer
Andrea Beaty

Introduction to Engineering
Lift the Flap Engineering
Rose Hall

Introduction to Engineering
The Most Magnificent Thing
Ashley Spires

Our Engineer's Comics
Civil Engineering
Structures/buildings
If I Built a House
Chris Van Dusen

Water
The Magic Schoolbus at the Waterworks
Joanna Cole

Structures/buildings
Baby Loves Structural Engineering!
Ruth Spiro

Water
The Water Princess
Susan Verde

Structures/buildings
How Was That Built?
Roma Agrawal

Electrical/Energy
Solar Energy
Chandra's Magic Light
Theresa Heine

Wind Energy
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba

Wind Energy
Where Is the Wind?
Celia Warren

Wind Energy
The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip
Joanna Cole

Wind Energy
Baby loves Green Energy
Ruth Spiro

Wind Energy
See Inside Energy
Alice James

Wind Energy
Wind
Carol Thompson

Robots and Computers
vision and image recognition
Shark in the park
Nick Sharratt

Robots
Robots, Robots Everywhere!
Sue Fliess

Robots
No-Bot
Sue Hendra

Aerospace
Flight
Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane
Kirsten W. Larson

Space
Max Goes to Mars
Jeffrey O. Bennett

Space
Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover
Markus Motum

Biomedical/Health
Impact of noise
Rabbit’s Nap
Julia Donaldson

Exploring our World
Underneath the ground/sea
Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef
Marianne Berkes

Materials and Size
That's not my... Series
Usborne

Materials and Size
Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small
Jess Wade

Materials and Size
What are Materials?
Kay Barnham

Materials and Size
What’s smaller than a pygmy shrew?
Robert E. Wells

If you’d like to read more engineering books have a look at this list for suggestions.
If you are a teacher wanting to know more about teaching engineering to young children we really enjoyed Making and Tinkering with STEM by Cate Heroman.
bottom of page