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Marvelous Mattie

Amazon.com Price:  $11.91 (as of 09/05/2019 01:30 PST- Details)

Description

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 once just twelve years old, Mattie designed a metal guard to forestall 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 as of late. Alternatively, in court, a man claimed the discovery was once his, stating that she “could not perhaps take note the mechanical complexities.” Marvelous Mattie proved him improper, 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 vital prolific female inventors will leave readers inspired.

Marvelous Mattie is a 2007 Bank Street – Highest Children’s Book of the Year.


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