I Will Be
Pierdomenico Baccalario, Federico Taddia
Leonardo’s Great Machines
Non-Fiction
40 ingenious inventions: How they were and how they are today
The young engineer Leo, said to be a great-great-great grandson of the brilliant Leonardo da Vinci, finds himself involved in a heated discussion: someone claims that his illustrious ancestor is an overrated genius and he promises to make him change his mind. Thus begins a challenge to the sound of inventions: submarines, aeroplanes, cars, tanks, but also fans, screws, guitars, cranes and calculators … 40 machines designed by Leonardo da Vinci more than 500 years ago, which are still current and very useful today!
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A book to understand how Leonardo’s machines work and discover not only the great inventor’s projects, but also their applications today.
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The book contains many experiments that highlight the scientific principles underlying Leonardo’s inventions and invites the reader to try their hand at building some projects.
Publisher:
Editoriale Scienza
Target:
8-10
Year:
2019
Author
Davide Morosinotto
An author whose books have been translated into 25 languages, in Italy Davide Morosinotto won the Super Andersen Prize in 2017 with Il Rinomato Catalogo Walker&Dawn (The Pocket Watch Gang), Mondadori, and the Strega Children’s Prize 2021 with La Più Grande (The Greatest), Rizzoli, with which he also entered the IBBY Honour List 2021. A finalist at the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and winner of the Penzberger Urmel in Germany, he has also won the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine and the Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Journal de Mickey in France, the Vlag en Wimpel and the Zilveren Griffel in Holland, the KJV in Flanders, the Protagonista Jove prize in Catalonia and he was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2022 in the United Kingdom.
Author
Christian Hill
Christian Hill is an author and screenwriter. He has written many children’s stories including Il Ladro dei Ceili (The Sky Thief), Rizzoli, winner of the Cento Children’s Literature Prize in 2019, and Olga, una Storia di Pace in Tempo di Guerra (Olga, A Story of Peace in Wartime), Rizzoli, which entered the Italian IBBY Honour List in 2023. His works have been translated into several languages, some of which he can recognise and some of which he can’t. He loves music, role-playing games and his armchair.
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