Tool Book (New & Updated)

By Gail Gibbons

Book Overview

Gail Gibbon's bestselling Tool Book is new and updated This classic introduces kids to tools that measure, screw, scrape, and more.

What are tools? How do they help us make things? For little builders, crafters, and DIYers, Gail Gibbons presents the answers to those questions in this cheerful introduction to tools and what they do.

From rulers, hammers, and saws, to drills, nuts, and bolts, Gibbons covers basic hand tools and shows them in action Clear diagrams display how tools work, accompanied by simple text that is accessible to the youngest readers. Newly added text includes facts about workers and their tools, where tools are found, and how tools are simple machines.

Gail Gibbons is the go-to source for early nonfiction for millions of educators and caregivers. As The Washington Post wrote, "Gail Gibbons has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823460444
• ISBN13: 9780823460441
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.9" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Tool Book

I purchased this for a 2 1/2 year old boy. He loves tools and was excited to go through this with his daddy. I like how it gives names for many types of tools even ones that are not used frequently.

Great for the little carpenter

My 3-year-old loves this book. It covers in clear illustrations and simple words most of the tools that a carpenter or a do-it-yourselfer owns. There aren't any power tools, so it's a little dated, but it's the best book of this type that I've found for the little guys.

A good overview of basic hand tools and their use.

My 22 month old son loves this book. He brings it to me or my wife several times a day for reading. Not much text, good illustrations. Tools are grouped by function (tools that make holes, tools that measure etc.). A few of the tools are obsolete (like the bit & brace) but can be found in the workshops of grandparents.