Marvelous Mattie
by Emily Arnold McCully
published by Farrar Strauss Giroux
I was drawn to the lovely cover of Marvelous Mattie immediately. Sitting there on the library display, it called to me. I checked it out. I read. I learned something!
I had never heard of Marvelous Mattie Knight. Do you know who she is?
Called the "Lady Edison," she is responsible for many inventions--most notably that of the square-bottomed paper bag! It's fun to learn about things that we take for granted in this day in age! At one point this was a big enough problem that someone had to invent a machine to deal with it...and that person was Mattie Knight.
The real story here is not just that she was a female inventor in a time when no one thought it possible--the real story is that she believed in her inventions AND in her right to own it, woman or not!
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You can also read another interesting post on Mattie's bags HERE.Labels: girl power, National Picture Book Month, nonfiction, picture book, review
