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Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
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Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women Hardcover - 2000

by Catherine Thimmesh; Text by (Art/Photo Books) Melissa Sweet


Summary

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?

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The horses were tired; they were hungry.

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  • Title Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
  • Author Catherine Thimmesh; Text by (Art/Photo Books) Melissa Sweet
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 3rd Printing
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harcourt Brace and Company, Boston
  • Date April 24, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780395937440 / 0395937442
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.29 x 8.33 x 0.48 in (23.60 x 21.16 x 1.22 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 960
  • Library of Congress subjects Women, Inventors
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99036270
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Media 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

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