Award-winning duo Catherine Thimmesh and Melissa Sweet inspire a new generation of innovators in this fascinating celebration of women inventors from diverse backgrounds. For fans of Women Who Dared and Women in Science.

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. What inspired these girls, and just how did they turn their ideas into realities?

Retaining reader-tested favorite inventions, this updated edition of the best-selling Girls Think of Everything features seven new chapters that better represent our diverse and increasingly technological world, offering readers stories about inventions that are full of hope and vitality-empowering them to think big, especially in the face of adversity.

About the Author
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.

Reviews
"GIRLS THINK OF EVERYTHING is a wonderful book, as surprising as it is inspiring .... Buy this book for the girl you love today, and she may well become a mother of invention tomorrow." -- Pulitzer Prize winner Natalie Angier, author of WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY, 1999 National Book Award finalist BOX "This very attractive, informative book will find an audience among browsers and report writers alike." -Booklist, boxed review (3/15/00) Booklist, ALA, Starred Review "An outstanding collective biography of women and girls who changed the world with their inventions." -School Library Journal (4/00) School Library Journal "This book is an inspired ode to women inventors." -Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly -


Awards
Winner of William Allen White Children's Book Award (Kansas) (United States) and IRA Children's and Young Adults' Book Award (United States) and Disney Adventures Book Award (United States) and Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book for Children (United States).



Book Information
ISBN 9780618195633
Author Catherine Thimmesh
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Clarion Books
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Weight(grams) 320g