Full name: Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor

Author: Emily Arnold McCully Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Biographies, Non Fiction, History, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374348106 0374348103

With her sketchbook labeled My Inventions and her father’s toolbox, Mattie could make almost anything – toys, sleds, and a foot warmer. When she was just twelve years old, Mattie designed a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off textile looms and injuring workers. As an adult, Mattie invented the machine that makes the square-bottom paper bags we still use today. However, in court, a man claimed the invention was his, stating that she “could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities.” Marvelous Mattie proved him wrong, and over the course of her life earned the title of “the Lady Edison.”   With charming pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations, this introduction to one of the most prolific female inventors will leave readers inspired.   Marvelous Mattie is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. Similar books: Wonder Horse by Emily Arnold McCully The Boy Who Invented TV by Kathleen Krull Electric Ben by Robert Byrd Neo Leo by Gene Barretta The Real McCoy by Wendy Towle A Computer Called Katherine by Suzanne Slade Otis and Will Discover the Deep by Barb Rosenstock Mesmerized by Mara Rockliff Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark A Weed Is a Flower by Aliki The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei by Peter Sis The Tree of Life by Peter Sis Fearless Flyer by Heather Lang Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea by Robert Burleigh Ben Franklin's Big Splash by Barb Rosenstock Secret Engineer by Rachel Dougherty Of Numbers and Stars by D. Anne Love Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? by Margaret Frith So You Want to Be an Inventor? by Judith St. George