“Girls Think of Everything” by Catherine Thimmesh and Melissa Sweet

“Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women” is a collection of truly inspirational short stories that recognize the inventions of ambitious women who overcame unfavorable odds to impact the world.

Each chapter focuses on challenging problems that spark creative solutions that have changed, or promise to change, the world.

Written and illustrated by two entrepreneurial in their own right, Catherine Thimmesh and Melissa Sweet’s book, “Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women” is an inspiring look at women’s little known or recognized role with inventions in medicine, science, household products, and high-tech gadgets.

“Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women” is the perfect book of trivia for elementary students and up. Readers will learn the innovative role women have played throughout history and how so many well known products evolved out of curiosity, necessity, and accidents. Things like the Apgar score, disposable diapers, windshield wipers, Kevlar, Liquid Paper, Scotchguard, paper bags, and drugs for the treatment of leukemia and kidney transplant rejection.

The endpapers include a thorough list of creativity camps for kid inventors, a source list, and a timeline of women’s inventions since 1946.

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