Barnes & NobleKid Innovators- True Tales of Childhood from Inventors and Trailblazers by Robin Stevenson
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Web ID: 15998421Moving, funny, and totally true childhood biographies of Bill Gates, Madam C. J. Walker, Hedy Lamarr, Walt Disney, and 12 other international innovators. Throughout history people have experimented, invented, and created new ways of doing things. Kid Innovators tells the stories of a diverse group of brilliant thinkers in fields like technology, education, business, science, art, and entertainment, reminding us that every innovator started out as a kid. Florence Nightingale rescued baby mice. Alan Turing was a daydreamer with terrible handwriting. And Alvin Ailey felt like a failure at sports. Featuring kid-friendly text and full-color illustrations, readers will learn about the young lives of people like Grace Hopper, Steve Jobs, Reshma Saujani, Jacques Cousteau, the Wright Brothers, William Kamkwamba, Elon Musk, Jonas Salk, and Maria Montessori.
Product Features
- Suggested age range- 8-12 years
- Format- Hardcover
- Product dimensions- 5.6" W x 8.1" H x 0.7" D
- Genre- Biography
- Publisher- Quirk Publishing, Publication date- 02-16-2021
- Page count- 208
- ISBN- 9781683692270
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Great Addition to the Kid Legends Series!
My 11yo son loves reading this series, we discovered it with the first two books Kid Presidents and Kid Athletes. While this book has a different author and illustrator, it follows the same formula of layout and writing. Shorter chapters and colorfully vibrant illustrations to keep the readers’ attention. The really interesting element about the Kid Innovators book is the innovators’ experiences with adversity, either because they were just so eccentric, their ethnicity, or their family’s financial status. The stories show the innovators struggling, failing, and persevering to be successful, all of which are great life lessons for our kids. From Jonas Salk who created the Polio vaccine to Elon Musk founder of Tesla and SpaceX to Florence Nightingale and her transformation of nursing and medicine, these are all amazing true stories that will entertain and energize a young reader.
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