Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

This is truly great concept that is very poorly executed. The stories are dry, not entertaining, not engaging and just utterly disappointing. The selection of women is great and the cover is fabulous. The book itself is packaged very poorly for the age rage intended - it seems like it should be for younger ages (it's bound/covered and illustrated like a young elementary school aged book), but the content on the pages is for pre-teen/teens or even young adults and should be in a chapter format OR contain a lot more visuals if they're intending to reach the age range stated. It tries to tell a cohesive story, but it falls short. It completely lacks visuals about the inventions themselves. I mean there's an entire page with the toll house recipe on it, but no visual about kevlar or how the fibers were created - instead, it's more like a poorly done paper doll version of it. There are great visuals/blueprint illustrations of windshield wipers and paper bags, I just wish they had done this more consistently throughout the book. It feels like the book needs to be bigger/longer to truly to do the subject matter justice and keep it engaging. It's a great celebration of female perseverance and resiliency, but it does little else to give kids something to hold onto and relate to. I'm all for using intelligent language and having high expectations of children as they grow into adults (as the authors state on the back cover), but this doesn't reach the intended audience in a readable and digestible way. It reads more like a text book in some parts and it completely bored kids who are usually fascinated by this type of content. I don't understand how this is so highly reviewed except that it attempted to meet a need. It's great to see books like this and I want to see so many more, this is just very poorly done.

I was pretty disappointed with this book. The first story in the book is about the woman who "invented" the chocolate chip cookie. While there is nothing wrong with celebrating home economics and women who are innovating right where they are at, I was desperately hoping for a book that truly challenged my daughters and focused on women making advancements in STEAM and non traditional gender roled positions. There are some of those stories in this book but the truly tragic aspect of it is that the book includes a timeline full of fascinating inventions by women but does NOT tell those stories in place of stories of the woman who invented white out, the snugli (baby carrier like the ones women in Africa use) and the paper bag. I wish I had been able to see a table of contents before I ordered which this book conveniently for them does not have. I paid three times the new list price for this book (currently $5 and some change) for that price it might be worth it or you could save your money and get "Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls"! Overall, I was just very disappointed to basically have this book tell my daughters, 'you can innovate in the kitchen or sewing room where you belong'. They obviously don't say those words directly but their inclusions in the book (and exclusions) speak louder than words! Here's a list of included stories/inventions to help you out! 1. Chocolate Chip Cookies 2.Windshield Wipers (spoiler alert, this story is heartbreaking! Her idea was rejected and then stolen by a man and applauded) 3.Kevlar 4.Liquid Paper 5.Scotchgard 6. Snugli 7. Computer Compiler 8. Paper Bags 9. Space Bumper 10. 3-D glasses

Purchased as a gift for my 5 year old daughter. GOOD: The book provides a chronological timeline of known inventions and their female inventors spanning from 3000BC to the 20th century. This timeline sandwiches the book's content. An introduction into the historical role of women in inventing is then presented as well as a history as to why women weren't credited with inventions subject to existing patent laws of the times. It also includes 3 additional female inventors within the Intro. The meat of the book presents individual female inventors and their stories through a sweet anecdote for each that describes the "necessity" and/or context that led to each individual's invention. The stories and descriptions are each generally 2-3 pages with colorful and vivid illustrations. While not extensive or exhaustive by any means it does provide insight into simple inventions like the paper grocery bag to the more complex of Kevlar. The book's intended audience are young girls. As such, not much life detail is provided about each "inventress" outside of the context of their invention. It easily serves as a jumping off pointing for exploring further and providing subject matter for potential research papers...etc..etc. Also provides a list of contact information for contests and organizations that encourage youth creativity. BAD: It's a small book that provides about 12 stories in total. Again, the personal life history of each is briefly touched on if at all. These are quick and easy stories to be read by parents without occasion.

I read this book in combination with Rachel Ignotofsky's Women in Science, regretting that civilization has not as yet advanced a point when achievements no longer need be identified as gender-specific. Be that as it may, both books provide valuable information and insights about creative thinking. Catherine Thimmesh's coverage covers a timeframe from 3000 BC when fourteen-year-old Hsi-ling-shi develops a method of gathering and weaving silk until 1994 when eleven-year-old Alexia Arnold designs the Ooops! Proof No-Spill Feeding Bowl. In between, we learn about other women -- often teenage -- who come up with ideas that also illustrate the prescience of these comments by Francea Hodgson Burnett: "At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done -- then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago." I wish I had a dollar for every time I learned about the origin of a breakthrough idea and asked, "Why didn't I think of that?" Here are some other examples: o Ruth Wakefield: Toll House chocolate cookies o Mary Andersen: windshield wipers o Stephanie Kwolek: Kevlar o Bette Naismith Graham: Liquid Paper® o Patsy O. Shernan: Scotchgard™ o Margaret E. Knight: paper bags o Becky Schroeder: the Glo-sheet More often than not, someone becomes exasperated, asking "Why hasn't someone come up with a way -- or a better way -- to ...?" and then provides the answer. That's essentially what happened to several men: Spencer Silver (Post-it Notes), George de Mestral (Teflon), Wilbert and Robert Gore (Goretex) and lso what happened with many of the inventors that Catherine Thimmesh discusses in her book. She concludes, "Suppose you have an invention of your own. It's different, it's new, it's neat. Now what? Obtaining a patent may be an important first step." She then explains how to proceed, noting that obtaining a patent can be an extended and expensive process. "Not all inventions will benefit from having a patent." It makes sense to contact the U.S. Patent Office at its website and check out the resources available, then obtain legal counsel. As with Women in Science, this book challenges young women to "think of everything" that can be improved, or replaced by something else that is better. It also challenges others -- parents, other family members, friends, teachers, coaches, and clergy -- to support their efforts.

The purple background on the cover combined with pink and white letters for the title are appealing, and the young woman with the ideas running through her head makes you want to turn to the next page. The chronological timeline is perhaps designed to stimulate readers to further research, because of course to write short stories about female inventors the book would have to be condensed. The introduction about Dr. Virginia Apgar and the "Newborn Scoring System" was a neat introduction, and what followed were a few short stories about woman and girls, some who invented chocolate chip cookies, and others who invented such things as windshield wipers, Scotchgard, and paper bags. And ultimately we end up with little Alexa and her "Opps! Proof, No-Spill Feeding Bowl." The book is short and the amount of pictures were appropriate since it was not a Graphic Novel where the emphasis is more on pictorial reading. In this case the book is designed for 11 or 12 years olds who may not have the attention span for a longer book, and the lack of pictures forces them to read short stories about female inventors. And it leaves them with a mystery question: "did Catherine Littlefield Greene really give Eli Whitney the idea for his Cotton Gin." If I were a middle-school teacher I would use it to introduce young people to the art of short story writing. Cheers!

A wonderful accounting over an expanse of time of ingenious inventions by women. The unwritten backstory consist of inventions when women weren't allowed to hold patents and their husbands had to apply. Hence, many inventions true inventors have been subsumed in the patriarchy. Another part of the backstory comes from reading the types of inventions and realizing that very many of them were conceived to make domestic life more efficient since women were relegated to the domestic sphere. This is a great primer for all people and especially young women to impart some of the many ways women excelled in times of oppression.

The cover & title made it seem like the whole book will be jaw dropping & spectacular. Not so. As far as actual content goes, it's very very scarce. The wording is bland & boring. Not enough photos of the "ingenous" invention. Not enough women were featured (9 women--- that's it---only 9 featuring the following inventions: chocolate chip cookies(huh?), windshield wiper(awesome!), kevlar (awesome), snugli, liquid paper, scotch guard, compiler(awesome), paper bags, space bumper(thumbs up), illusion transmitter (awesome). The book is 1/4inch thin (it just feels so wrong to call it "thick").

Given as a Christmas gift, and the little girl absolutely loved it. I even took a look through it before giving it, and I have to say, it is pretty interesting. I would recommend as a unique empowering gift for any young girl in your life!

I'm now giving these as birthday gifts for my 9 yr old daughter's classmates. There is something about a book that highlights accomplishments by women that triggers girls to think about possibilities. This book will get girls thinking beyond the traditional ideas of "women careers" and what women can create. The book is easy to read and readers will find the examples of inventions fascinating with lots of examples (I didn't know Kevlar was invented by a woman). Empower your girls with ideas and lofty goals--you will be surprised.

Would prefer that it had a more diverse representation of women rather than just white women.

This is truly great concept that is very poorly executed. The stories are dry, not entertaining, not engaging and just utterly disappointing. The selection of women is great and the cover is fabulous. The book itself is packaged very poorly for the age rage intended - it seems like it should be for younger ages (it's bound/covered and illustrated like a young elementary school aged book), but the content on the pages is for pre-teen/teens or even young adults and should be in a chapter format OR contain a lot more visuals if they're intending to reach the age range stated. It tries to tell a cohesive story, but it falls short. It completely lacks visuals about the inventions themselves. I mean there's an entire page with the toll house recipe on it, but no visual about kevlar or how the fibers were created - instead, it's more like a poorly done paper doll version of it. There are great visuals/blueprint illustrations of windshield wipers and paper bags, I just wish they had done this more consistently throughout the book. It feels like the book needs to be bigger/longer to truly to do the subject matter justice and keep it engaging. It's a great celebration of female perseverance and resiliency, but it does little else to give kids something to hold onto and relate to. I'm all for using intelligent language and having high expectations of children as they grow into adults (as the authors state on the back cover), but this doesn't reach the intended audience in a readable and digestible way. It reads more like a text book in some parts and it completely bored kids who are usually fascinated by this type of content. I don't understand how this is so highly reviewed except that it attempted to meet a need. It's great to see books like this and I want to see so many more, this is just very poorly done.

I was pretty disappointed with this book. The first story in the book is about the woman who "invented" the chocolate chip cookie. While there is nothing wrong with celebrating home economics and women who are innovating right where they are at, I was desperately hoping for a book that truly challenged my daughters and focused on women making advancements in STEAM and non traditional gender roled positions. There are some of those stories in this book but the truly tragic aspect of it is that the book includes a timeline full of fascinating inventions by women but does NOT tell those stories in place of stories of the woman who invented white out, the snugli (baby carrier like the ones women in Africa use) and the paper bag. I wish I had been able to see a table of contents before I ordered which this book conveniently for them does not have. I paid three times the new list price for this book (currently $5 and some change) for that price it might be worth it or you could save your money and get "Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls"! Overall, I was just very disappointed to basically have this book tell my daughters, 'you can innovate in the kitchen or sewing room where you belong'. They obviously don't say those words directly but their inclusions in the book (and exclusions) speak louder than words! Here's a list of included stories/inventions to help you out! 1. Chocolate Chip Cookies 2.Windshield Wipers (spoiler alert, this story is heartbreaking! Her idea was rejected and then stolen by a man and applauded) 3.Kevlar 4.Liquid Paper 5.Scotchgard 6. Snugli 7. Computer Compiler 8. Paper Bags 9. Space Bumper 10. 3-D glasses

Purchased as a gift for my 5 year old daughter. GOOD: The book provides a chronological timeline of known inventions and their female inventors spanning from 3000BC to the 20th century. This timeline sandwiches the book's content. An introduction into the historical role of women in inventing is then presented as well as a history as to why women weren't credited with inventions subject to existing patent laws of the times. It also includes 3 additional female inventors within the Intro. The meat of the book presents individual female inventors and their stories through a sweet anecdote for each that describes the "necessity" and/or context that led to each individual's invention. The stories and descriptions are each generally 2-3 pages with colorful and vivid illustrations. While not extensive or exhaustive by any means it does provide insight into simple inventions like the paper grocery bag to the more complex of Kevlar. The book's intended audience are young girls. As such, not much life detail is provided about each "inventress" outside of the context of their invention. It easily serves as a jumping off pointing for exploring further and providing subject matter for potential research papers...etc..etc. Also provides a list of contact information for contests and organizations that encourage youth creativity. BAD: It's a small book that provides about 12 stories in total. Again, the personal life history of each is briefly touched on if at all. These are quick and easy stories to be read by parents without occasion.

I read this book in combination with Rachel Ignotofsky's Women in Science, regretting that civilization has not as yet advanced a point when achievements no longer need be identified as gender-specific. Be that as it may, both books provide valuable information and insights about creative thinking. Catherine Thimmesh's coverage covers a timeframe from 3000 BC when fourteen-year-old Hsi-ling-shi develops a method of gathering and weaving silk until 1994 when eleven-year-old Alexia Arnold designs the Ooops! Proof No-Spill Feeding Bowl. In between, we learn about other women -- often teenage -- who come up with ideas that also illustrate the prescience of these comments by Francea Hodgson Burnett: "At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done -- then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago." I wish I had a dollar for every time I learned about the origin of a breakthrough idea and asked, "Why didn't I think of that?" Here are some other examples: o Ruth Wakefield: Toll House chocolate cookies o Mary Andersen: windshield wipers o Stephanie Kwolek: Kevlar o Bette Naismith Graham: Liquid Paper® o Patsy O. Shernan: Scotchgard™ o Margaret E. Knight: paper bags o Becky Schroeder: the Glo-sheet More often than not, someone becomes exasperated, asking "Why hasn't someone come up with a way -- or a better way -- to ...?" and then provides the answer. That's essentially what happened to several men: Spencer Silver (Post-it Notes), George de Mestral (Teflon), Wilbert and Robert Gore (Goretex) and lso what happened with many of the inventors that Catherine Thimmesh discusses in her book. She concludes, "Suppose you have an invention of your own. It's different, it's new, it's neat. Now what? Obtaining a patent may be an important first step." She then explains how to proceed, noting that obtaining a patent can be an extended and expensive process. "Not all inventions will benefit from having a patent." It makes sense to contact the U.S. Patent Office at its website and check out the resources available, then obtain legal counsel. As with Women in Science, this book challenges young women to "think of everything" that can be improved, or replaced by something else that is better. It also challenges others -- parents, other family members, friends, teachers, coaches, and clergy -- to support their efforts.

The purple background on the cover combined with pink and white letters for the title are appealing, and the young woman with the ideas running through her head makes you want to turn to the next page. The chronological timeline is perhaps designed to stimulate readers to further research, because of course to write short stories about female inventors the book would have to be condensed. The introduction about Dr. Virginia Apgar and the "Newborn Scoring System" was a neat introduction, and what followed were a few short stories about woman and girls, some who invented chocolate chip cookies, and others who invented such things as windshield wipers, Scotchgard, and paper bags. And ultimately we end up with little Alexa and her "Opps! Proof, No-Spill Feeding Bowl." The book is short and the amount of pictures were appropriate since it was not a Graphic Novel where the emphasis is more on pictorial reading. In this case the book is designed for 11 or 12 years olds who may not have the attention span for a longer book, and the lack of pictures forces them to read short stories about female inventors. And it leaves them with a mystery question: "did Catherine Littlefield Greene really give Eli Whitney the idea for his Cotton Gin." If I were a middle-school teacher I would use it to introduce young people to the art of short story writing. Cheers!

A wonderful accounting over an expanse of time of ingenious inventions by women. The unwritten backstory consist of inventions when women weren't allowed to hold patents and their husbands had to apply. Hence, many inventions true inventors have been subsumed in the patriarchy. Another part of the backstory comes from reading the types of inventions and realizing that very many of them were conceived to make domestic life more efficient since women were relegated to the domestic sphere. This is a great primer for all people and especially young women to impart some of the many ways women excelled in times of oppression.

The cover & title made it seem like the whole book will be jaw dropping & spectacular. Not so. As far as actual content goes, it's very very scarce. The wording is bland & boring. Not enough photos of the "ingenous" invention. Not enough women were featured (9 women--- that's it---only 9 featuring the following inventions: chocolate chip cookies(huh?), windshield wiper(awesome!), kevlar (awesome), snugli, liquid paper, scotch guard, compiler(awesome), paper bags, space bumper(thumbs up), illusion transmitter (awesome). The book is 1/4inch thin (it just feels so wrong to call it "thick").

Given as a Christmas gift, and the little girl absolutely loved it. I even took a look through it before giving it, and I have to say, it is pretty interesting. I would recommend as a unique empowering gift for any young girl in your life!

I'm now giving these as birthday gifts for my 9 yr old daughter's classmates. There is something about a book that highlights accomplishments by women that triggers girls to think about possibilities. This book will get girls thinking beyond the traditional ideas of "women careers" and what women can create. The book is easy to read and readers will find the examples of inventions fascinating with lots of examples (I didn't know Kevlar was invented by a woman). Empower your girls with ideas and lofty goals--you will be surprised.

Would prefer that it had a more diverse representation of women rather than just white women.

Bought this for my daughter aged 9. She loved it and I was impressed too. A lot of good information which I had never come across before about great things women had invented or done. Definitely got her thinking in a positive way about her position in society but was interesting as well and not too "right on"

I loved reading this book full of amazing inventors! Being a computer programmer myself, I especially enjoyed the section about Grace Hopper, the inventor of the first computer compiler. I thought she was awesome with her ideas and her sayings like that she hates when people say things can't be done because that's the way they've always done it. Like really!!!! LOL I will tell that to people who question my teleportation ideas! Keep inventing and thinking on gals! Woot

Read your daughter something useful at night. As a father I have no interest in reading her stories about a princess in need of saving. This is a great book to teach her how awesome woman are. She very much enjoyed it and even reads it on her own at eight years old.

My daughter liked this book and I really like the idea of having my young daughter reading about all of the brilliant women who have invented things over the years. I love to see women empowering our young ladies! Daughter really enjoyed this and I'm glad to have been able to give her such a cool book!

We have three daughters and read this to them after learning about it from another family that enjoyed it. For families that enjoy entrepreneur and inventor stories and knowing how things that we use in every day life came to be... this is a good one. We read this while our girls were in 4th-6th grade.

I got this for my 9 year old for Valentine's Day knowing it wouldn't be something she'd go nuts for. But in 5 years time I'm hoping that she'll see it again and think, "this was pretty cool". Great empowering tool!

Loved this book. I learned a lot and my baby sister did too. We read it together and all day she couldn't stop telling ppl about the things women invented! By the end of the day she was thinking she would like to invent something too! Such an empowering book!

We have had this book for a while and my daughter has just discovered what is inside. She loves to quiz people on how the chocolate chip cookie was made or who made Kevlar. It has gotten her to read over the summer so it gets an A+ in my book!

Intended for youngsters, but I enjoyed reading it, too. Excellent for the whole family, but especially good for girls who need more super role models to challenge their brains. Illustrations are top-notch and add to the appeal of the book.

Interesting and empowering for my girls. I have a 7 year old and it is a little complex in language for her. So sometimes I replace the more complicated words for words she understands at her level. However, she still wants to read it every night and is very interested in it.

Fabulous book on how things came to be through inventions by women through curiosity and even mistakes! One example was the Chocolate chip cookie! Really enjoyed reading this!

This book is amazing! It is a great resource to share inventions made by women all over the world! We will be using it with our Girls Heart Reading Ohio Program at OSU this coming Spring 2016 and we can't wait to share this book with our girls. I recommend this book to all teachers, women and girls in the world!

I ordered a few of these to give out as gifts to the principals of an all girls STEM school. Was a lovely & inspiring book thats great for adults and children to flip through and read. This would be a great gift for any child, boy or girl. Ordered another one to keep after liking it so much and getting such a positive reaction.

I bought this for one of my nieces who has found a love of science and math and I knew this would be perfect for her. I read through some of it before wrapping it, and was extremely interested! There's a good chance I'll be buying a copy for myself.

My elementary aged niece loves this book. It's actually being used as part of her home school extra activities. She loves reading the stories and then doing research on the different inventions. It's written to where it's easy to understand but allows her to have to really use her smarts to really get it.

Buy this for your children. My niece loves it! Easy to understand. Would recommend for younger kids (read to them) older kids (learning to read) older older kids (as inspiration) and even adults (as a brief history lesson). AWESOME

This book is fantastic! Little girls today need to know about the intelligent women who invented many of the items we use everyday. I bought this book for my daughter’s classroom library.

My 8 year old granddaughter found it tucked awaw in the back of the car seat and read it quietly as we drove home from the airport...(3 hr drive) - Later she commented on the material in the most positive ways...fun way for her to find out about the myriad tracks women have traversed to contributed to our world...

I didn't get to read it because I sent it to my daughter out of state but she loved it.

Bought this for my 10yo niece. She is into science and wants to work for NASA when older.

Looking at this book right now. So has TOC ish timeline in front of book beginning with 3000 B.C. Hsi-ling-shi develops gathering silk, to 1943 Henrietta Bradberry - bed rack to freshen clothes. Also stands out - Ruth Wakefield for Chocolate Cookies! Graphics are lovely whimsical historical looking too! Bought for both my 8 yr old son and 2 yr old daughter.

I bought this for my niece who is very science minded and she loves it! It gives her role models of women in science while keeping her learning!

Bought this for my engineering-loving (4) niece. The book was too advanced for her, but I found my (7) nephew reading it cover-to-cover. He is a boy's-boy, in the "girls-are-yucky" phase of childhood, but he found the book to be a fascinating read about really cool inventors and engineering feats.

I purchased this book and Women in Science 50 Fearless Pioneers,,, for a 12 year old girl. I am exceptionally pleased with my gift. They arrived in like new condition.

I got this book as part of a gift for my niece. She loved it. The quality of the book is nice and it is a good size for little hands.

Great for young girls, it's not a long and overly detailed book, but definitely informative and inspiring.

trying to make sure my daughter knows she's just as good and capable-- or more-- than any boy out there, since even at six they are starting already with the "girls can't do...." or "only boys do..." she can do anything she sets her mind to, i tell her, and yes, girls do think of everything. these are inspirational stories. highly recommend.

Fun and interesting book that shows unexpected inventions by girls.

Great product & delivery

great family xmas present

Girls young & old are smart and can develope new ideas to make a difference in this world.

I enjoyed reading it and learning about women's contributions and inventions. I then gave it to my niece who is 10 and she really liked it. It also gives her a starting point for future school reports. Lots of good information presented well. The book includes a wide age range of inventors which I hope will encourage my nieces to explore their creative side.

I read this to my 6 year old. We both love it! It's a great bedtime book! I only wish it was longer! It got me going because they let you know how some of these women and their great ideas have been taken advantage of in the past. But the author doesn't dwell on the injustices. All facts!

Great book! Stories are short, understandable, and informative. Granddaughters love it. Being used a story a day in homeschool situation for science/history lesson.

Great book for my niece that is a book worm and loves learning about women in history who made an impact on our everyday society.

We love reading this with our daughter and son (he's 4 so doesn't get offended by the title yet;) She finds it fascinating and loves to go invent her own things after reading. A great inspirational resource for any age!

My daughters love just picking it up once in a while and sharing some of the great things that women and girls have discovered and invented. If you have children they will appreciate this book - make sure your sons experience it too!

I bought this book for my daughter, who is 8. She had just completed a week of Camp Invention, which was offered by her school during the summer, so this was an inspiring follow-up to that experience. She really enjoyed it. There was a nice text-to-picture ratio and not at all boring. I would recommend this to anybody who has daughters or who works with girls between the ages of 8 to 10.

My 9-year old daughter really enjoyed reading this book. Anything related to girl empowerment I am all for. Thanks!

Good

Great gift for your siblings

Awesome illustrations! Really neat book

A perfect book for pre-teen and teenage girls! Especially for those who are still trying to plan for the future. Girls rock! Girls today can anything and be anything they want to be!

Grandaughters love it because you can read a page about a girl/woman to peak your interest. Then go further and read a biography or other reading about the person, as desired.

Didn’t really there were no black or Hispanic women inventors included in the book. Was looking for a more diverse book.

Thin paper quality but kids like the stories, pictures would have been nice.

Christmas Gift

A fun book filled with cool things invented by women. I love this since we were denied patents for so long, it's a good thing to showcase.

I absolutely love this book and have been buying it for every little girl in my life.

My grandsons loved the book, but ask why there were no books like this for boys? It was the same type of question my daughter when she was eight, but with the word girls replacing boys.

I have been reading this to my girls and they love this book!

Our niece loves this book and it is inspiring!

I read Girls Think of Everything to my granddaughter's fourth grade class and they really enjoyed it. I gave it to the teacher and she says that they still check it out of their classroom library. I had to buy another for my granddaughter to read when she is at our house and she says that she will read it to her baby sister when she is older.

My 12 year old daughter LOVES this book!!! Great quick stories to read about amazing inventions all created by women!

I bought this for my 8 year old niece and she LOVES hearing about all of the inventions that women were behind. Great idea for young girls to educate and motivate them!

PS Boys love these stories too!

From my 7 year old daughter who gave it 4 stars: I just like learning what women can do and learn about things that we have and that women have invented. Favorite part is when I learned how women invented chocolate chip cookies. Also liked girl inventing glowing paper.

I love the stories and illustrations. It's a very beautiful and empowering book for little girls. I wish it was a little longer but I really like regardless. The stories are written in a simple and clear to understand language. Hopefully it will help spark an interest in STEM.

This has some fascinating stories that my kids are really enjoying!

Great gift. Well written

Great book for a girl of any age. Good for encouraging minds of young girls.

great for kids

Women do it all and I was happy to share these stories with my daughter.

Inspiring examples of women in technical careers.

wonderful book! My daughter loves it!

A beautiful and artistic, informative sampling of accomplishments by women!

Really disappointed in this book. Got it for my niece for her birthday and after reading it decided not to give it to her. It's very short, for one, and also only has a few inventions in there that have anything to do with science or really brilliant innovation (instead, scotch tape, for example). There are better, more inspiring books for girls to read.

Exciting firmst, great artwork and stories young girls/women need to know about. Gives females insight and encouragement to do the best with their creative, scientific and artistic minds!

Had some stickers

Bought this for my 10 year old niece and we all enjoyed it - especially the Toll House cookie story! A very inspiring book for young girls, and important for young boys to read these stories as well and view girls as their intellectual equals.

Great book. I'm reading it with my 7 year old and it's very interesting and informative. She is able to read it so would recommend for both child and parents to read.

Very nice

I got this book to give as a gift to a grandmother/engineer to share with her granddaughters. It has been reported that adults and children are both enjoying the book and the time spent together with the book.

I little hard for kids to understand but an interesting book.

Nice book for educating little ones about women inventors. Its a great tool, would recommend to anyone who are unfamiliar with how much women contribute/contributed to the world with their ingenious inventions.

Love this! Wish it had more people featured.

This was a great book! My mother and I read through it on a long road trip. I wanted to start collecting some more feminist books for as my friend's kids grow older, and in case I ever have my own. I think these stories are very accessible and simple. The downside- many stories end with the women not getting paid, which is very disappointing. There aren't many details, but it seems like many of them got shafted. Also, there didn't seem to be any diversity. The backgrounds of the women weren't explicitly stated, and they had pretty cartoon portraits instead of photos, but it seemed like it was all white women. Though I could investigate to know for sure, the fact is who wants to work that hard when reading a book to a child? So just keep that in mind when reading.

Great book for girls and boys alike. Although they could get past all the pink and purple (we girls like all colors thank you very much) the information was well organized and readable. My daughter loved seeing examples of female intelligence and ingenuity.

Both the young woman (6 and 9) I purchased this for where really excited to see all the woman inventors and their inventions. I also like how the book is laid out with every woman getting her own section and being in chronological order. This helps to flip to an area without much confusion.

I purchased this book for my granddaughters (age 9 and 11) - but I read it first! I thought it was well written and was happy to read the stories of such innovative, creative women. I have since given this book to my g-daughters but so far they haven't read it and upon visiting, did not see it in their bookcase (so have no idea if they like it)

better for older girls - my 7 year old did not find it entertaining enough - so I would say 10 years old on

Amazing stories of real women and their accomplishments!

my granddaughter loves it

ordered this for a 16 year old going through Chemo, has kept her occupied throughout her hospital stays.

I wasn't sure what I'd get my oldest grandchild, but I love it and hope she will too!

This book is intriguing, not only for kids; easy understandable; recommended for everybody.

We, granddaughter and I, had no idea there are so many ingenious women (and girls). Stories are amazing. Very encouraging for young ladies to know they can develop a "creation" which may be of benefit to many, patent and develop it.

A gift for a 10 year old girl and she read it twice

GREAT GIFT FOR YOUNG LADY.

Simple and enjoying, got it for my 10-year-old.

A darling book! Arrived on time and my daughter and I love to share and read it together.

Really great book to give to our 9 year old niece. She's an advanced reader and this book should reinforce how kick ass girls can be!!

Bought this for my niece to encourage her and I looked at it and thought it was cute.

this was a gift for a 9 yo girl and she loved it.

Loved this book!! Great information and stories about these particular women highlighted in that book. Suggest it to everyone! Yeah!

Bought as a gift...I think she will love it.

My granddaughter who is ten enjoyed this book.

An excellent book to give a younggirl, anywhere from 5th grade to high school, for inspiration. each page is about a different young girl and something she invented. You will be surprised when you see many of the produdts.

Girls, yes, you are as productive as boys. Here are facts you can use to back up that statement. It is also a spirit lifter/motivator for you. Enjoy this fun, inspirational read.

Very interesting. I did not know women invented all those things. Or that they were not allowed to have patents until the 20th century.

I'm using it as supplemental reading for my students learning during Women's History Month. It's a great book!

Great gift for my nieces.

My 10 year old loves the stories. Well written and perfect for the good night read.

Great book to inspire girls! Nice stories with the length not being too long for each. Quality little book.

Our children--sons and daughter--couldn't wait to read this in its entirety during family reading time. Don't ever limit this reading to just girls!

Grand-daughter loved this

Such an incredible book. Wonderful illustrations and easy to follow stories.

I think it is very important for girls to realize that their horizons are not limited. I usually give this book to girls between 6 and 8. I also give the book "Mistakes that worked."

Good

Granddaughter was excited to dig in!

Great book to read with kids.

I purchased this for my granddaughters. They love it. I have read very little of it, but what I did read was good.

Girls everywhere need to read this book.

This is the real deal. It is well written on a level to engage young readers. My granddaughter just gobbled it up.

Wonderful book to have around.

A gift for our granddaughter who has read it and loves it.

I was really hoping there would be more pics in this book. I bought it for my 8yo niece, but will be giving it to my 11yo niece instead. The 8yo would be able to read it, but I don't think it would hold her attention enough. I mean, it's a book on inventions, I'd want to see pics of the inventors, their inventions, and any blue prints or anything, ya know?

Gift for a remarkable grand-daughter . ( no bias )

thank you. Book doesn't have many pages but it is very informative.

A good gift

She likes it

Love this book so much!! Great read. My 10 year old son was hesitant to read it because he thinks it's for girls.But after we all sat and were reading it together, he joined in because it was so interesting!!

My kid has been parroting this book and devouring the stories. The stories are a good length for her age - 8 yo. Very inspiring to her, so I'm very happy with the purchase!

Good product

My 8 year old loves this book. She tells her friends about all the "awesome girls that invented" this or that.

This book explores inventions, some purposeful and some accidental, by females of all ages. It is a great tool in classrooms to encourage science and exploration for girls.

Kind of a weird format, but I love the premise.

Gift for child at church

Perfect for my granddaughter. Super interesting facts.

My daughter got inspire by all those stories, I'm happy

Great book. Lots of color and history in it. I got this one for my niece and hope to get one for my daughter one day.

The information was as expected, but the format lacked excitement. Could have been a more exciting read with a better layout.

perfect for young relative who got it from me as a Christmas gift

Bought this for my little sister as part of her Christmas present. She loved it! Wish it went more in detail though.

Very nice book to encourage girls to stretch their minds & think creatively. Interesting to boys or girls alike, or adults!

Love

Love this product! Great book

Wish we had this book fifty years ago

Very cool book, although well above my 9-year-old's reading level (and she's a fairly advanced reader).

This was a gift for a granddaughter.

Great fun to read with my grand daughter!

This book is spectacular for little girls and I've sent it to 3 nieces! Got myself one too so we can share the stories long distance.

I have read this book to my nieces and they have loved it.

Inspiring! The kids were surprised to find so many successful and innovative women!

Always looking for good books for my grand-girls, this colourful, informative, inspirational and all over cool book is now highly recommended by Grandguy.

My girls love this.

I got this for my daughter to show her some accomplishments of women. I read it too and I actually learned a lot and I enjoyed it.

This book is so cool, just filled with short stories centering around everyday items invented by women. I really enjoyed reading it with my daughter. The cover is magnificent too, it would make a delightful gift.

Love this - perfect for girls to see how much women have contributed to our world.

This was a gift for my 9 year old daughter who think girls can do anything. She's right and this book helped her to learn about some great women in history.

Bought this for my Niece, decided to keep it for me.. I will enjoy reading it to her and helping her research the heroines together.. Brava!

My 12 year old daughter loves this book...I think it is really well done.

Great book! My 8 year old loved hearing about all the awesome inventions by smart and fun women!

Just what I wanted and delivered on time.

Excellent reading especially when a grandmother is reading it to a granddaughter. This is one of those share read books every girl should have.

AwEsOme,

Fun story

Awesome book for a young reader.

Great little book. Purchased for my daughter to help encourage her.

I used this for a classroom lesson on inventions

What's not to like

great price, great book!

I didn't know women invented all the amazing things they have. It was fun to read with my 10 year old granddaughter. We both learned a lot.

Great book!

great gift for teenagers girls

granddaughter loves it

Great!

I've been looking for non-Disney fairy tale wait for Prince Charming books for a 6-year-old girl and this is a must have for her book shelf! I am really glad to have found and purchased this item!

Great! Good for my girls home school. Excellent information.

My 10 year old granddaughter likes to read and Ithought a book on clever, smart and ingenious women would make for a nice role model.

the kids like it

cool book for inspiring girls

pretty good book

Girl Power is always cool. My grandniece is ready for chapter books and I thought this would make an excellent book to inspire her to greatness, glad I bought it

Girls are awesome and they need to know about the incredible people that came before them and to celebrate their smarts.