Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

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HarperCollins, Oct 9, 2018 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 128 pages

In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. Their creations are some of the most enduring (the windshield wiper) and best loved (the chocolate chip cookie). What inspired these women, and just how did they turn their ideas into realities?

Features women inventors Ruth Wakefield, Mary Anderson, Stephanie Kwolek, Bette Nesmith Graham, Patsy O. Sherman, Ann Moore, Grace Murray Hopper, Margaret E. Knight, Jeanne Lee Crews, and Valerie L. Thomas, as well as young inventors ten-year-old Becky Schroeder and eleven-year-old Alexia Abernathy. Illustrated in vibrant collage by Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet.

 

Contents

In the beginning
1
Chocolate Chip Cookies
7
Lumin AID
11
Winshield Wipers
17
Turning Plastic into Fuel
22
Kevlar
28
Hot Seat
34
Computer Compiler
40
Space Bumper
64
Combating Drought with Orange Peels
70
Scotchgard
76
Snugli
82
Roominate
87
Your Turn
93
Back Matter
96
Endpapers
107

Rethink
46
Paper Bag Folding Machine
52
Laserphaco Probe
58
Back Cover
110
Spine
111
Copyright

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About the author (2018)

Catherine Thimmesh is the award-winning author of many books for children, including Girls Think of Everything and Team Moon, winner of the Sibert Medal. Her books have received numerous starred reviews, appeared on best books lists, and won many awards, including the IRA Children's Book Award and Minnesota Book Award. She lives in Minnesota with her family. www.catherinethimmesh.com.

Melissa Sweet is the Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of many fine children’s books including Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White, winner of the NCTE Orbis Pictus award, Balloons Over Broadway, a Sibert winner, and The Right Word and A River of Words, both Caldecott Honors. Reviewers have described her unique mixed-media illustrations as “exuberant,” “outstanding,” and “a creative delight.” Melissa lives on the beautiful coast of Maine. In addition to writing and painting, she enjoys gardening, hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing. For more information about the author and her work, visit her online at melissasweet.net.

Bibliographic information

TitleGirls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
AuthorCatherine Thimmesh
Illustrated byMelissa Sweet
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherHarperCollins, 2018
ISBN054735052X, 9780547350523
Length128 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Women
Juvenile Nonfiction / Girls & Women
Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Experiments & Projects
Juvenile Nonfiction / Technology / Inventions
  
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