Everyone can learn more than a thing or two here. This book needs to be seen, whether you’re seven or twenty-seven. Let this book make the rounds in your classroom, in the library, in your circle of friends. This is a love letter to the unsung heroes of womanhood in history and my goodness, if you’re a history teacher, you need this book in your classroom for your students to borrow and read because it’s that good. But now I do and now I want the world to know about them too. I wish I could say I knew about many of these women but the unfortunate truth is that I didn’t and that’s a shame. Wonder Women is so informative, informal, and fun, with illustrations by Google doodler, Sophia Foster-Dimino and pop culture references sprinkled throughout to better help set the cultural scene of the times and see what these women were up against, in our own understanding.

In Wonder Women, readers get a very comprehensive portrait of 25 female innovators and trailblazers and a brief overview of so many other women in the fields of science, medicine, espionage, innovation, and adventure. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs introduces you to pioneering female scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors-each profile a study in passion, smarts, and stickto-itiveness, complete with portraits by Google doodler Sophia Foster-Dimino, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to present-day women-centric STEM organizations.Īfter reading Sam’s debut, The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, I knew I was on board to read whatever she published next, so I was excited when I learned that her next book would be Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History. Dare I say, it’s even better than her debut! Women have always been able to change the world, even when they didn’t get the credit. Genre: History, Biographies & Memoir, FeminismĮver heard of Allied spy Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim woman whom the Nazis considered “highly dangerous”? Or German painter and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, who planned and embarked on the world’s first scientific expedition? How about Huang Daopo, the inventor who fled an abusive child marriage only to revolutionize textile production in China? Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed Historyīy Sam Maggs, Illustrated by Sophia Foster-Dimino Note: This review is part of the 2016 Summer Reading Diversity Spotlight.

Wonder Women by Sam Maggs