Dazzling Women Designers
“Each new design begins as an idea—a flash of light that flicks on in a designer’s brain. It evolves into a rough sketch, sometimes drawn on a napkin, or a scrap of wood, or a computer screen.”
Second Story Press, © 2010
This nonfiction book for middle schoolers promotes truly amazing women at the tops of their fields. Meet a furniture designer, a landscape architect, an urban planner, a costume designer, a car designer, an architect, a fashion designer, a textile designer, and a robot designer. It was great fun learning all about these awesome super stars.
Book Awards
2012 AMELIA BLOOMER PROJECT LIST
Dazzling Women Designers. Second Story Press, 2010.
Book Reviews
The book received 3-1/2 stars out of 4 in this highly favourable January 21, 2011 review by Julie Chychota in CM: Canadian Review of Materials published by The Manitoba Library Association. Find her review from Vol. 17, No. 19 here.
Sal’s Fiction Addiction is a blog written by a retired teacher-librarian with a passion for quality books for children. In this review Sal notes that the stories are told “with reverence and clarity” and calls the book “a shining example.” She confesses that this “is another of those books that teaches me something I didn’t know.” Read her review here.
The publisher’s website with a lovely page about Dazzling Women Designers is just a click away: here.
