Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code, a true-life narrative, tells the story of one of the foremost women in computing history and science: Grace Hopper, the woman who revolutionized binary computer code.
Browsing: Women’s History
Winifred Conkling is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction for young readers, including Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot.
Susanna Chapman studied illustration at Rhode Island School of Design and now designs children’s books for a publisher outside Boston.
Katy Wu has worked for Google, Laika, Pixar, CinderBiter, and Simon & Schuster. Grace Hopper is her first picture book; her second, Dumpling Dreams, written by Carrie Clickard (Simon and Schuster), is scheduled for fall 2017.
Which five words best describe Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code?
Laurie Wallmark: Curious, unique, persistent, intelligent, and stubborn.
Which five words best describe Motor Girls: How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century?
Sue Macy: Bumpy
Muddy
Determined
Triumphant
Heroic
This is a book list that helps both boys and girls know that we can all be heroes!
Ruby Shamir, author of What’s the Big Deal About First Ladies, selected these five family favorites.
Laurie Wallmark writes exclusively for children. The picture book biography, Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine (Creston Books, October 2015), is Laurie’s first book.
Which five words best describe Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
America’s racist history surrounds us.