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Beschreibung
Moving, 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.
  • Alvin Ailey felt like a failure at sports.

Featuring kid-friendly text and full-color illustrations, readers 8 to 12 years old 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.
Moving, 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.
  • Alvin Ailey felt like a failure at sports.

Featuring kid-friendly text and full-color illustrations, readers 8 to 12 years old 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.
Über den Autor
Robin Stevenson; illustrated by Allison Steinfeld
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

PART 1 Tech Revolution
GRACE HOPPER: The Grand Lady of Software
STEVE JOBS: Love What You Do
BILL GATES: I’m Thinking!
RESHMA SAUJANI: Embracing Failure

PART 2 Seas, Skies, and Outer Space
JACQUES COUSTEAU: Breathing Underwater
WILBUR AND ORVILLE WRIGHT: The Brothers Who Wanted to Fly
WILLIAM KAMKWAMBA: Electric Wind
ELON MUSK: Electric Cars and Rockets to Mars

PART 3 Cracking Codes and Saving Lives
ALAN TURING: Code-Breaking Hero of World War II
HEDY LAMARR: A Double Life
JONAS SALK: An Instinct to Improve Our World
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: The Invention of Modern Nursing

PART 4 Trailblazers
MARIA MONTESSORI: Rethinking Education
MADAM C. J. WALKER: Craving the Beautiful
WALT DISNEY: Creating Happiness
ALVIN AILEY: All That Was Inside You
Details
Empfohlen (bis): 12
Empfohlen (von): 8
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Sachliteratur
Rubrik: Kinder & Jugend
Thema: Nachschlagewerke
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781683692270
ISBN-10: 1683692276
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Steinfeld, Allison
Stevenson, Robin
Illustrator: Steinfeld, Allison
Hersteller: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 206 x 142 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Allison Steinfeld (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2021
Gewicht: 0,412 kg
Artikel-ID: 118481128