Layla And The Bots #01 Happy Paws (A Branches Book)

Have young inventors in your house or classroom? Happy Paws is such a brilliant book for teaching K-2 the NGSS engineering design process from start to finish. When Layla and her inventive bot friends find out the local amusement park is shutting down, they harness the power of creative thinking and invention to save it. From research, idea generation, gathering feedback, building, and testing, Fang and Nishiyama's book shows that invention is all about tweaking, testing, and not giving up. Backmatter includes instructions for building your own roller coaster. This is a great book to help kids learn engineering and invention.

This book is awesome. My husband and I are engineers so we are always looking for books to inspire a love of engineering in our daughter. I especially love that the main character is a girl. The STEM topics are seamlessly woven into the story. This book is about on par with Unicorn Diaries in terms of difficulty, maybe a little easier. If your kids loved Unicorn and Yeti this is a similar comic book style. Most importantly, my 6 year old loves this book. She consistently chooses this book to read herself.

I got this for my little one, and she absolutely loves it. She can read it on her own and was turning the pages with delight to find out what happens next. The problem solving aspect of the book is awesome, and really engaged my child. Highly recommend this book for anyone looking for a positive and upbeat STEM book, that also inspires little readers. We ordered the 2nd and 3rd in the series too.

Great to meet Layla & her awesome bots in their first adventure: trying to save their local amusement park. The story walks a young reader through the scientific process of identifying a problem, researching possible causes, brainstorming solutions, (tackling a minor setback) and finishing with a winning outcome! This minds-on lesson is followed by a hands-on project at the end of the book. We don’t have dogs, but our ducklings enjoyed their ride! And we look forward to Layla’s next adventure!

Layla and the Bots, Beep, Boop and Bop, are cute characters working hard in a story of problem solving. Their happy band can’t perform if the park closes so it’s up to them to figure out what’s wrong and fix it in five days. Charming illustrations jump from the pages to bring the Bots and Layla to life and make the amusement park something the readers want to stay open. Grab an introduction to these new friends.