This Makes That - by Ivan Brunetti (Hardcover)

About the Book

Annemarie and her classmates learn about STEAM concepts in a Makerspace.

Book Synopsis

Lemons can make much more than lemonade! In this new Toon Level 1 Reader, noted creator and art professor Ivan Brunetti teaches young readers a playful lesson about how science is all around them.

Ivan Brunetti is back with a comic all about the science projects young readers do with their friends, peers, and classmates in their first years of elementary school. Capturing a STEAM classroom filled with laughs and visual delights, This Makes That provides lots of ideas for exciting hands-on experiments, from turning half-and-half into ice cream to sending a bottle rocket into the sky with baking soda. The book encourages kids to read, learn visual literacy, and learn about science while having fun at the same time.

Review Quotes

"A nice addition to beginner graphic novel books for young readers; children will enjoy the details of the classroom and the controlled chaos that often accompanies a group of enthusiastic students."--School Library Journal

About the Author

Ivan Brunetti lives and works in Chicago as a teacher, illustrator, and cartoonist, usually in that order. He is the author of Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice and Aesthetics: A Memoir, as well as the editor of both volumes of An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories. His most recent books are Wordplay, 3x4, Shapes and Shapes, and Comics: Easy as ABC!. His drawings have appeared in the New Yorker and New York Times, among other publications.