This updated edition of the bestselling Girls Think of Everything, by Sibert-winner Catherine Thimmesh and Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet, retains all the integrity of the original but includes expanded coverage of inventions.
Browsing: Women’s History
This is a well-composed volume which is sure to bring pleasure to readers both young and old.
KidLit is Shaking Things Up: Author Susan Hood discusses how children’s books are inspiring the next generation of activists.
Patricia O’Connell Pearson is a former history teacher with a B.A. in history and a master’s degree in education. Her nonfiction for ages ten and up—Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWII—was released by Simon and Schuster in February, 2018.
Celebrating the length, diversity and strength of this extraordinary woman’s life, Before She Was Harriet urges readers to remember her humanity as well as her fame.
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code, a true-life narrative, tells the story of one of the foremost women in computing history and science: Grace Hopper, the woman who revolutionized binary computer code.
Winifred Conkling is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction for young readers, including Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot.
Susanna Chapman studied illustration at Rhode Island School of Design and now designs children’s books for a publisher outside Boston.
Katy Wu has worked for Google, Laika, Pixar, CinderBiter, and Simon & Schuster. Grace Hopper is her first picture book; her second, Dumpling Dreams, written by Carrie Clickard (Simon and Schuster), is scheduled for fall 2017.
Which five words best describe Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code?
Laurie Wallmark: Curious, unique, persistent, intelligent, and stubborn.