The Plan for the Gingerbread House: A STEM Engineering Story

“Pattison’s text begs to be read aloud and Joven’s spreads offer dynamic visuals…” —Kirkus Reviews

“…appealing text…Highly recommended … an excellent tool for teachers or librarians to read before assigning STEM projects.” School Library Journal

STEM KIDS CHRISTMAS BOOK

Kids will learn engineering in this STEM kids Christmas book, a fun, exciting activity for both Christmas and STEM engineering. All you need is gingerbread, candy, and a lot of laughs.

Come one, come all! The Gingerbread Fair opens soon!

Teams of kids are baking, building, and decorating. The engineering project guidelines are clear: the winning house must stand upright on its own and a gingerbread boy and girl must fit inside.

Children’s STEM Book Children’s Christmas Book

Sounds easy? It would be except...cookies burn, the icing is too thin, the house caves-in, someone is eating the candy decorations, and-oh!-they forgot about the gingerbread boy and girl.

Follow the STEM engineering team as they struggle to create the perfect gingerbread house. Young engineers will learn to overcome problems and press on to a finished house. At the end, they evaluate their efforts and plan for a better gingerbread house.

Need a winter STEM engineering activity? This book inspires the budding engineers to think about the classic gingerbread house in a new way. Written in a lyrical rhyme, it's sure to please the language arts folks, too.

Gingerbread Book

This book is perfect for

• 5-10 year old kids who love Christmas
• Elementary STEM lessons
• STEM science, STEM projects engineering
• STEM activity for Christmas – build your own gingerbread house

This picture book about STEM engineering will become a holiday favorite.

Children's book author and indie publisher DARCY PATTISON has written over seventy award-winning fiction and non-fiction books for children. Five books have received starred PW, Kirkus, or BCCB reviews. Awards include the Irma Black Honor award, five NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books, five Eureka! Nonfiction Honor book (CA Reading Assn.), two Junior Library Guild selections, two CLA Notable Children's Book in Language Arts, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book, a Best STEM Book, an Arkansiana Award, and the Susannah DeBlack Arkansas Children's History Book award. She's the 2007 recipient of the Arkansas Governor's Arts Award for Individual Artist for her work in children's literature. Her books have been translated into eleven languages.