num_pages: 128
description: 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.
language: English
title: Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
titlecomplete: Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
genres: Middle Grade, Historical, Biography, Science, Childrens, Womens, Picture Books, Feminism, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 1272
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award
category: Older Reader Category, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Children's Nonfiction
publisher: Clarion Books