Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder Madam C.J. Walker Marie Curie and Their Daughters

As a child Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter Rose thought those stories might make a good book and the two created the beloved Little House series. . Sara Breedlove the daughter of former slaves wanted everything to be different for her own daughter ALelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color. Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes in science. Inspired by her mother Irène too became a scientist and Nobel prize winner. . Borrowed Names is the story of these extraordinary mothers and daughters. Borrowed Names is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Childrens Book of the Year.