Innovation and Ingenuity

Have you ever wondered how inventors and innovators got the drive and the spark to create the things that have revolutionized our daily lives. Readers will be thoroughly entranced in Robin Stevenson’s new book Kid Innovators: True tales of Childhood from Inventors and Trailblazers, illustrated by Allison Steinfeld.

Throughout the book, readers can learn about the childhoods of innovators such as Steve Jobs, Reshma Saujani, Alvin Ailey and Florence Nightingale. Readers will gain insight into what led them to create and innovate as adults and can see how at one point they were just children, having common childhood experiences.

The Bee (7) said to me the other day, “Mom, I like this book because it has lots of different people in it. There are girls and boys and people with white skin and brown skin, I really like that.” We know that representation matters. It is incredibly important to highlight to our readers the amazing accomplishments of all different people. As Robin Stevenson does in all of her work, we need to centre the experiences and accomplishments of a diverse array of people. Readers need to be able to see that their dreams can become a reality because of the people just like them who blazed those trails. 

Kid Innovators has a handy For Further Reading section at the back of the book so if your reader is particularly fascinated by any of the people highlighted in the book, you know where to go to get accurate information. The information listed is all sources the author used when researching and writing the book.