Inventions can be big, like roller coasters, or small, like crayons. And inventors can be scientists or athletes or even boys and girls! It's hard to imagine life without Popsicles, basketball, or Band-Aids, but they all started with just one person and a little imagination. With sixteen original poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Julia Sarcone-Roach's imaginative artwork, Incredible Inventions celebrates creativity that comes in all shapes and sizes

Two puzzling / by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater -- Ode to blue jeans / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Roller coaster / by Joan Bransfield Graham -- Straw--1888 / by Drew Lamm -- Basketball seasons / by John Sullivan -- Tale of fig newton / by Sandra Gilbert Brüg -- Ferris wheel / by Elizabeth Upton -- Take the escalator / by Katherine O'Connell George -- Brushes rule / by Constance Andrea Keremes -- Inside the box / by Ann Whitford Paul -- What to do with a popsicle / by Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Band-aid / by J. Patrick Lewis -- Signal's lament / by Alice Schertle -- "In here, Kitty Kitty" / by Marilyn Singer -- Velcro / by Maria Fleming -- In new running shoes / by Fran Haraway -- Behind the inventions