creative ability

Khalida is just learning to play piano when a song awakes, tickling her fingers and dipping into her ear, but it will be many hours before she can catch and share it.

A chronicle of the author's life as a maker, an exploration of making and of his own productive obsessions, but it's also a permission slip of sorts from the author to the reader. Permission to grab hold of the things you're interested in, that fascinate you, and to dive deeper into them to see where they lead you. Through stories from forty-plus years of making and molding, building and breaking, along with the lessons learned along the way, this book is meant to be a toolbox of problem solving, complete with a shop's worth of notes on the tools, techniques, and materials that the author uses most often, but advice that can also serve as life lessons for a creator. This toolbox also includes lessons from many other incredible makers and creators, including: Jamie Hyneman, Nick Offerman, Pixar director Andrew Stanton, Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro, artist Tom Sachs, and chef Traci Des Jardins. And if everything goes well, this book will hopefully save you a few mistakes (and maybe fingers) as well as help you turn your curiosities into creations, inspiring you to build, make, invent, explore, and -- most of all -- enjoy the thrills of being a creator.

In this compilation of four separately published books, Pakistani American second grader Yasmin learns to cope with the small problems of school and home, while gaining confidence in her own skills and creative abilities.

"A little cloud moves through the sky among the other clouds, wishing to be big enough to make a real cloud shape before realizing that she is capable of making something different"--OCLC.

"The author meditates on the search for an idea, and the wonderful feeling when the right idea comes along, unleashing the creative process"--Provided by publisher.

Describes how to increase creativity with concepts, tools, techniques, and stories.

"Makerspaces are places designed to inspire creativity and collaboration. In [this book kids will] make a mask that glows, a working lamp, and more! Step-by-step photos bring each project to life."--Back cover.

Tan reveals how to calm your mind on demand and return it to a natural state of happiness, deepen self-awareness in a way that fosters self-confidence, harness empathy and compassion into outstanding leadership, and build highly productive collaborations based on trust and transparent communication.

As their makerspace project the students in Yasmin's second grade class are building a city: there are houses, a school, a church, even a castle, but Yasmin is not sure what to build--until inspiration strikes.

Unsure about her artistic skills, second-grader Yasmin is not looking forward to the art competition at school--but with the support and encouragement of her family she produces a prize-winning painting.