Description
If there’s a pre-teen or adolescent on your life, especially a girl, check out this empowering, inspiring chapter book. It portrays the youths and careers of six remarkable women whose curiosity about nature fueled a passion to steadfastly triumph over stumbling blocks to careers in traditionally men-only occupations. The six–Maria Merian (b.1647), Anna Comstock (b.1854), Frances Hamerstrom (b.1907), Rachel Carson (b.1907), Miriam Rothschild (b.1908), and Jane Goodall (b.1934)–all was renowned scientists, artists and writers. A gorgeous resource for young researchers and biographers, these stories can also be a place to begin for issues of gender, science, and the surroundings.