1 book, 100 piece wood blocks set in box, construction set (12 bolts, 8 nuts, 16 boards, 6 blocks, 1 screwdriver, 1 building guide) Skipping Stones Honor Book, 2015.
Summary:
This engineering focused STEAM kit encourages young readers to become interested in construction and engineering while they are still learning basic life skills. The construction blocks can keep little ones happy and busy while channeling their inner engineer. Kits are sold in their entirety; components are not available for individual sale. In a Guatemalan village, students squished into their tiny schoolhouse, two grades to a classroom. The villagers had tried expanding the school, but the money ran out before the project was finished. No money meant no wall materials, and that meant no more room for the students. Until one boy got a wonderful, crazy idea: Why not use soda bottles, which were scattered all around, to form the cores of the walls?
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