Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor is written by inventor and animal scientist Temple Grandin. It details the author’s failures as well as her successes. It is a good opportunity to show students that it is okay to fail. In fact, failure is often a valuable learning experience on the road to success. Students will learn that Grandin is on the autism spectrum and speaks openly about her challenges and advantages growing up as an autistic person.

The “All Minds” in the title of the book refers to the author’s assertion that different kinds of minds and thinkers are valuable and important contributors to society, each in their own way. This is an opportunity for students to think about their own differences and similarities with others and how this impacts how they learn and what interests them.

This trade book is published by Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. We only offer this title for purchase.