A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won't spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die. By studying inventions like these-the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious hospital bed -we can learn how people imagine their way around "impossible" problems to discover groundbreaking answers. Pagan Kennedy reports on...

Sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In this installment, the goofy inventor Dad accidentally zaps his little son with a particle beam. Soon the 112-foot-tall baby heads for the bright lights of Las Vegas, and the chase is on!

The Cat in the Hat profiles famous inventors throughout the ages, including Johannes Gutenberg, Eli Whitney, Louis Daguerre, Thomas Edison, Garrett Morgan, and Tim Berners-Lee.

When his cupcake-flinging machine gets out of control at the Annual Cupcake Celebration, Rusty and Ruby have to think on their feet before the event becomes a complete mess.

"The paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger." --back cover

A preoccupied inventor accidentally shrinks his kids to 1/4 inch tall, and then throws them in the trash.

A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, produces some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.

When Chester V arrives to help clean up after the food-creating machine is destroyed, everything goes as planned until the machine starts making living food animals.

"Like most of us, Frances Gabe detested housework -- she found cleaning a "nerve-twangling bore." Unlike most of us, she invented a contraption to free herself from this tedious task forever: a self-cleaning house! Gabe's wacky, wonderful home included almost 70 new patented inventions, from a soap-spraying sprinkler in the ceiling to a kitchen cabinet that washed, dried, and stored dishes all in one place. Though Gabe's invention didn't catch on,...

Rusty and Ruby are working on a balloon-powered flyer when Liam falls inside and accidentally takes off, and they must use all their inventiveness to get him and their device safely back to land.