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Mara Rockliff

The Girl Who Could Fix Anything: Beatrice Shilling, World War II Engineer

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This true story of a woman whose brilliance and mechanical expertise helped Britain win World War II is sure to inspire STEM readers and fans of amazing women in history.Beatrice Shilling wasn't quite like other children. She could make anything. She could fix anything. And when she took a thing apart, she put it back together better than before. When Beatrice left home to study engineering, she knew that as a girl she wouldn't be quite like the other engineers - and she wasn't. She was better. Still, it took hard work and perseverance to persuade the Royal Aircraft Establishment to give her a chance. But when World War II broke out and Briti… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Duncan, Daniel (Illustr.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4063-9900-4
  • EAN: 9781406399004
  • Produktnummer: 37818477
  • Verlag: Walker Books Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
  • Seitenangabe: 48 S.
  • Masse: H23.0 cm x B28.7 cm x D1.0 cm 468 g
  • Gewicht: 468
  • Sonstiges: Children / Juvenile

Über den Autor


Mara Rockliff is the author of many books for children, including the Orbis Pictus Honor Book Mesmerized and Anything But Ordinary Addie, both illustrated by Iacapo Bruno; Around America to Win the Vote, illustrated by Hadley Hooper; Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope, illustrated by Zosia Dzierzawska; Jefferson Measures a Moose, illustrated by S. D. Schindler; Chik Chak Shabbat, illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker; and Me and Momma and Big John, illustrated by William Low, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book and Golden Kite Award winner. She lives in Pennsylvania, USA, with her family.Daniel Duncan is the author-illustrator of the picture book South and the illustrator of Mr. Posey's New Glasses by Ted Kooser and The Purple Puffy Coat by Maribeth Boelts, among other books for children. Daniel Duncan lives in Buckinghamshire.

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