Here’s a timely book that shines the spotlight on 50 innovations—both simple and grand—which have become world-changing and enduring. Its contents span a wealth of topics in science, communications, transportation, health, sports, food and principles of respect. Young readers may be familiar with some of Canada’s claims to fame—BlackBerrys, snowmobiles, canoes, maple syrup, hockey, Cirque de Soleil and the Canadarm. But the list in this book may bring surprises, such as the dump truck, blue box recycling, the chocolate bar, the zipper and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which has become an internationally recognized principle.
Innovation Nation: How Canadian Innovators Made the World
Written by David Johnston and Tom Jenkins.
Published in 2017 by Tundra.
Well, this is a great book. It shows of how much Canadians have done in the past century. May not be much when you first think about it, but reading this makes me realise how much canada has contributed. May be a simple list with photos, but its interesting. I would reccomend anyone who likes to learn stuff to read this.
I learned so much from this AMAZING book
I think this book is really cool because it teaches you about different inventions and I learned some new things. I learned about the life jacket and shrouded tires! My favorite topic was the Canadarm even though I already knew about it!
I thought that this was a neat book and enjoyed reading about Canada’s amazing inventions. This book was very interesting and I definitely recommend Innovation Nation to everyone. I learned many things about Canada’s inventions. I like that the book is split up into categories of inventions such as electric, sports etc.
Since we are kind of a pushed off country because of our neighbor below us, it is cool to think that all these mainstream things really came from Canada and that we really have an inventing purpose.
I really liked this book because it was very adventurous and had a lot of action. One of m favorite parts of this book was when there was a lot of action and everything was happening at once. I would recommend this book for readers of all age, and I would probably rate it as a 7/10.
Innovation Nation is a nonfiction book that tells you about great inventions that were invented by Canadians. It also splits the inventions into categories. I would rate this book 5 stars and recommend it to 5-18 year olds.