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How to Make a Flying Carpet (Alex, the Inventor) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Jenni Bishop

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How to Make a Flying Carpet (Alex, the Inventor #2)How to Make a Flying Carpet by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 stars
Who doesn’t love flying carpet stories especially one where you can learn how to make one?
This interesting story is aimed at 4- 8 years. They will get lost in the bright and colourful illustrations whilst getting involved in the story. Lois gifts her readers with stories that engages small minds. Stories that makes then believe and teaches them that anything is possible.
Alex loves to invent things and tinker with old things and in this story he puts his mind to making a flying carpet. Imagine exploring the world of wonders and make believe and learning new things along the way.
My grandbabies wanted to have a flying carpet of their own.
Grab a copy today to share with those you love.

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How to Make a Flying Carpet (Alex, the Inventor) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Jennifer Crain

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How to Make a Flying Carpet (Alex, the Inventor #2)How to Make a Flying Carpet by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed how Alex, the main character in How to Make a Flying Carpet, is an ordinary kid, showing any young person they can be an inventor. Alex also exhibits growth mindset, having to try multiple inventions to succeed in solving problems.

Alex also shows perseverance and grit, which are characteristics I appreciate in children’s literature. An added feature are 2 pages about Earth’s magnetic field and diagrams about the field. You have to read the book to discover what Alex builds instead of a flying carpet!

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How to Make a Flying Carpet (Alex, the Inventor Book #2) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Angela Hayes

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How to Make a Flying Carpet (Alex, the Inventor #2)How to Make a Flying Carpet by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

 

3 Stars

How to Make a Flying Carpet is the second book in Alex, the Inventor series by Lois Wickstrom. It is an illustrated children’s story about making a flying carpet. It includes some science on magnets, magnetic fields, Earth’s Magnetic field, and what makes metal magnetic. Alex is an inventor and likes to make useful things out of unused and ‘old’ items. So we follow along as she brainstorms ideas for making things, and get to see her invent things.
This is probably the ‘wordiest’ of Ms. Wickstrom’s books that my grandson and I have read, so far. But it did inspire him to want to try to make his own ‘flying carpet’- so it did capture his imagination.

Happy reading!

 

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How to Make a Flying Carpet (Alex, the Inventor) by Lois Wickstrom – Review by Shelly Kittell

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How to Make a Flying Carpet (Alex, the Inventor #2)How to Make a Flying Carpet by Lois Wickstrom
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What a fun story that helps teach the science of magnets. I found the paper clip trick to be the most exciting trick that I want to try. My grandson wants to try everything with magnets. He loves magnets and this story just helps build his interest. A fun story written for the curious child. The information at the end of the story helps teach the child more about magnetism. It’s a fun book that helps your child learn and discover more. My grandson said his favorite fact that he wanted to learn more about was why magnets repel each other. Another fun and terrific book.

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How to Make a Flying Carpet (Alex, the Inventor) by Lois Wickstrom

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How to Make a Flying Carpet (Alex, the Inventor) by Lois Wickstrom
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Genre – Kids, Family
Page Count – 27
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The refrigerator magnet broke. Alex never lets anything go to waste. What can she do with it?

Follow Alex as she enters a world of imagination where she learns science fundamentals. Imagination creates experiments. Experiments create ideas. Ideas create inventions. Magnets can stick together. Magnets can push apart. Can Alex use these magnets to build a flying carpet? She’ll need to do many experiments and make changes when things don’t work. She keeps trying.

Learn about magnets along with Alex.

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Lois Wickstrom lives in a world where imaginary playmates are real. She doesn’t remember being born, so she finds unbirthdays are more exciting than the official once-a-year date on the calendar. She’s taken so many science classes that she believes science is the solution to almost every problem, including the dilemmas in fairy tales.

She writes by herself. She writes with co-authors. She asks illustrators what they would like to draw. If she ever writes her autobiography, the title will be My Life as a Group Project.

Her mother used to get angry with her for daydreaming. Her little sister picked on her. So she lived in books and wrote her own stories in which the bad-guys made sense, and the good-guys had a chance. As she has grown older, her imagination has grown weirder. Even she doesn’t know what she will write next.

Lois is a former science teacher. She has written a series of science-based folktales, and turned some of them into plays. In each modernized tale, the protagonist achieves a better ending because of learning scientific principles. Lois likes to garden, ride her bike with her husband, cook, and she votes in every election.

Author Interview with Lois Wickstrom

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