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The futuristic world of Green Machines explored in new boxset from Living Paintings
29th April 2025
With Magnificent Machines Go Green, the latest boxset from Living Paintings, blind and visually impaired children can experience remarkable feats in sustainable technology – like the Volocopter, and the blazing fast Maglev Train – first-hand!
For those of us familiar with Back to the Future: Part II, it’s clear that not every prediction about transport came true. No, we don’t have flying cars (sadly), but there are some positively awe-inspiring real-life alternatives, all highlighted in this Topical Book for Key Stage 2 (ages 7-11), sure to educate and inform young minds!
In this boxset, the raised illustrations include:
- Sustainable Transport
- Serpentine Solar Shuttle Boat
- Aurrigo Auto-Dolly Tug
- Volocopter Air Taxi
- Maglev Train
Through these tactile images, blind and visually impaired children can, quite literally, hold the future in their hands!
Check out this new library book from Living Paintings. You’ll like learning all about amazing self-driving vehicles and eco-friendly machines. It’s like reading about the future!Laura Edwards Mother of Matilda
Our audio guides
Grace Webb, Presenter of Grace’s Amazing Machines on CBeebies, provides the audio guide for Magnificent Machines, and she’s bringing the tactile images to life, helping blind and visually impaired children build up an image in their mind and learn all about the sustainable world of green machines!
Listen to a snippet from Grace’s audio guide!
Tobias felt that he learned a lot from the commentary. He said that the tracks explained everything about sustainable transport in good detail, and that he loved learning about Volocopters, as he had never heard of them before. He said it feels like the future.Josie Budd Mother of Tobias
Books like this embolden the imagination of young minds and spark curiosity. It may start with readers wanting to “go for a ride on it one day,” as Claire Battle, mother of test reader Lucas, puts it. However, that excitement will blossom into a passion for learning, and maybe, even, a passion for sustainability, and it’s all the better because now blind and visually impaired children can access these resources.
Who knows? Maybe our readers will be behind the next magnificent machines? Only time will tell…
Magnificent Machines Go Green is available now!
Our tactile-audio boxset for blind and visually impaired children is available now to borrow for FREE.
If you’re not already a Living Paintings library member, you can join our postal library today and it won’t cost you a penny.