Girls Solve Everything: Stories of Women Entrepreneurs Building a Better World - Hardcover

by Catherine Thimmesh (Author), Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)

Brave women from diverse backgrounds make the world a better place through their businesses in this inspiring companion to the best-selling Girls Think of Everything by Sibert-winner Catherine Thimmesh and Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet. For fans of Women Who Dared and Women in Science.

Women all over the globe are asking questions that affect lives and creating businesses that answer them. Like, can we keep premature babies warm when they're born far from the hospital? Or, can the elderly stay in their homes and eat a balanced diet? Women are taking on and solving these issues with their ingenuity and business acumen.

How did they get their ideas? Where does the funding for their projects come from? And how have some of these businesses touched YOUR life? Girls Solve Everything answers these questions, inspiring today's kids to learn from entrepreneurs and take on some of the world's biggest problems, one solution at a time.

Author Biography

Catherine Thimmesh is the award-winning children's book author of Team Moon, winner of the Sibert Medal. Visit her online at www.catherinethimmesh.com.

Melissa Sweet is the Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White and Balloons Over Broadway. Visit her online at www.melissasweet.net.