So You Want to Be an Inventor?

St. George and Small the Caldecott Medal-winning team who created <i>So You Want to Be President?</i> are back with another spirited and witty look at history-this time focusing on the inventors and inventions who have given us lightbulbs automobiles and all the other things that keep the world humming.<br><br><i>So You Want to Be an Inventor?</i> features some of the world's best-known inventors-Thomas Edison Benjamin Franklin Eli Whitney-as well as lesser-known geniuses like Georges de Mestral (inventor of Velcro) Wilhelm Roentgen (inventor of X rays) and Hedy Lamarr (inventor of a system that became the basis for satellite communication-who knew?). Whether you're a dreamer or a loner a copycat or a daredevil this book might just inspire readers to invent something that could change the world!