Lets Build A Playground

An inspirational true story by the national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing healthy play areas for children traces the efforts of a group of kids and adults from an Indianapolis community who worked with KaBOOM! to build a playground that became the site of endless imaginative adventures.

From the publisher that brought you the bestselling Baby University books comes a brand new board book series of construction books for kids. Join the construction team and help build a playground! Let's build a playground! Follow along step-by-step as we construct a fun neighborhood playground, from digging holes for the support poles to assembling the slide and more! With a simple format and the introduction of new engineering concepts and words, tiny tool lovers will enjoy being a part of the construction crew. The Let's Build series introduces young readers to engineering, construction, and architecture, helping them imagine what they can build!

Dreaming of a day when there will be a real playground in her own neighborhood, a little girl is ecstatic when she learns that a local playground has been planned, in a story inspired by the construction of the first playground built by the KaBOOM! national nonprofit.

Poor design and wasted funding characterize today's American playgrounds. A range of factors--including a litigious culture, overzealous safety guidelines, and an ethos of risk aversion--have created uniform and unimaginative playgrounds. These spaces fail to nurture the development of children or promote playgrounds as an active component in enlivening community space. Solomon's book demonstrates how to alter the status quo by allying data with design. Recent information from the behavioral sciences indicates that kids need to take risks; experience failure but also have a chance to succeed and master difficult tasks; learn to plan and solve problems; exercise self-control; and develop friendships. Solomon illustrates how architects and landscape architects (most of whom work in Europe and Japan) have already addressed these needs with strong, successful playground designs. These innovative spaces, many of which are more multifunctional and cost effective than traditional playgrounds, are both sustainable and welcoming. Having become vibrant hubs within their neighborhoods, these play sites are models for anyone designing or commissioning an urban area for children and their families. The Science of Play, a clarion call to use playground design to deepen the American commitment to public space, will interest architects, landscape architects, urban policy makers, city managers, local politicians, and parents.

From the publisher that brought you the bestselling Baby University books comes a brand new board book series of construction books for kids. Join the construction team and help build a school! Let's build a School! Follow along step-by-step as we construct a school, from mixing the concrete for the walls, to building the desks, and so much more. With a simple format, bright and bold art, and the introduction of new engineering concepts, tiny tool lovers will enjoy being a part of the construction crew. The Little Builders series introduces young readers to engineering, construction, and architecture, helping them imagine what they can build! Pick up Let's Build a School if you're looking for: New concepts and words for toddlers An introduction to engineering for kids Truck books for toddlers

A compelling history, a manifesto, and a manual for change.

From the publisher that brought you the bestselling Baby University books comes a brand new board book series of construction books for kids. Join the construction team and help build a highway! Let's build a highway! Follow along step-by-step as big trucks and machines construct a busy road, from surveying the roadway, to using a bulldozer to clear the path, and so much more. With a simple format and the introduction of new engineering concepts and words, tiny truck lovers will enjoy being a part of the construction crew. The Let's Build series introduces young readers to engineering, construction, and architecture, helping them imagine what they can build!

The construction crew needs your help with their latest project! Tilt, tap, spin, and clap to demolish an old building, pour cement, and more in this sturdy, interactive picture book. Help the construction crew build a new park! They'll need you to take charge of the wrecking ball, dig with an excavator, empty a dump truck, and plant some new greenery. Can you tilt the book to swing the wrecking ball? Use your strong arm to help dig? Point the animals to where the trees need planting? At the end of the day, celebrate your hard work with all the members of the critter crew!

Join Louie, a crafty Llama with Dwarfism, who loves to build, construct and create. Together, he and his friends dream up a plan to bring the very first all-inclusive playground to their town.