Full name: Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

Author: Catherine Thimmesh Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, Science, Children, History, Feminism Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780618195633 0618195637

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. Similar books: Team Moon by Catherine Thimmesh So You Want to Be an Inventor? by Judith St. George Accidents May Happen by Charlotte Foltz Jones Neo Leo by Gene Barretta Timeless Thomas by Gene Barretta Now & Ben by Gene Barretta Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt Mistakes that Worked by Charlotte Jones Headstrong by Rachel Swaby Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky Broad Band by Claire L. Evans Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel The Madame Curie Complex by Julie Des Jardins A Weed Is a Flower by Aliki Electric Ben by Robert Byrd Secret Engineer by Rachel Dougherty The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Rocket Men by Robert Kurson