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Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor

Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor

McCully, Emily Arnold

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ISBN10: 0374348103
ISBN13: 9780374348106
Publisher: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
Published: Feb 21 2006
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.32 Width: 9.36 Depth: 11.28
Language: English
Awards: Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award, Bluebonnet Awards, Delaware Diamonds Award, Georgia Children's Book Award, North Carolina Children's Book Award, Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award

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.

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