Coloring book · From the Block Coloring Books, Book 6
From the Block to the Lab
Our People, Our Story, Your Colors
Ages 8 and up
African American inventors, doctors and scientists, and two kids who become inventors too.
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Malik thinks inventors are old guys in white wigs, not people like him. So Grandpa Joe walks him and his sister Zuri through the house, and everything they touch has a story: the light bulb, the ironing board, the furnace, the traffic light on the corner.
They meet Lewis Latimer, Granville T. Woods, Garrett Morgan, Madam C.J. Walker, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, Dr. Charles Drew, Alice Ball, Dr. George Washington Carver, Dr. Percy Julian, Dr. Gladys West, Jerry Lawson, Dr. Patricia Bath and more. Then Zuri and Malik build an invention of their own for the science fair, and on a summer trip down South, they finish one their grandfather started fifty years ago.
Every picture has a short caption, so it's a book you can read as well as color.
A great gift for Black History Month and for any kid who loves to build things.
What's inside
- 49 full-page pictures that tell one complete story
- Grandpa Joe's Inventor Cards at the front: a short, colorable bio card for every inventor, doctor and scientist, with the page where you'll meet them
- 22 African American inventors, doctors and scientists, from 1882 to today
- Real science projects: a motion-sensor porch light and a solar-powered garden pump
- An African American family and neighborhood, with natural hair of every kind
- A blank page at the end to draw your own invention
- Each picture printed on one side of the page, 8.5 x 11 inches
A peek inside
For grown-ups Tell me when it's out
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An African American family story you can color. Every square is somebody's story.
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The African American fight for the vote, in a story you can color.
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African American pioneers of the sky and a kid with a cardboard telescope.
Coming soonFrom the Block to the Big Stage
African American music, from the stoop to the spotlight.