Children’s Books

People Who Shaped Our World, Book series for ages 5-9

Grace Hopper“If you’ve got a good idea, and you know it’s going to work, go ahead and do it.”


Gloria Steinem “Be strong and proud of who you are.”


Gwendolyn Brooks –  “Gwen steps high on her walk home./Gwen smiles brightly./Gwen BELIEVES.


Hedy Lamarr“It’s about time.


Maria Toorpakai Wazir –  “I am a warrior, I was born a warrior, I will die like a warrior.”


Wu Chien Shiung – “Courageous hero”.


Margaret and the Moon

Margaret Hamilton –  Computer scientist, systems engineer, NASA in-flight software developer


STEM Stars Series, for ages 0-6

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin – Astronomer and Astrophysicist


Ada Lovelace – First Computer Programmer


Mary Ross – First Native American female engineer


Rear Admiral Grace Hopper – Computer Scientist


Marie Maynard Daly – First African-American woman to earn a Chemistry PhD


Chien-Shiung Wu – Nuclear Physicist


Emmy Noether – German mathematician and physicist


Little People, BIG DREAMS series, for ages 3-8

Jane Goodall – The world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees


Frida Kahlo
World-renowned painter


Maria Montessori – Pioneering teacher and researcher


Rosa Parks – The Mother of the Freedom Movement


Emmeline Pankhurst – British political activist and helper of the suffragette movement