Girls Think of Everything was first published in 2000. At the time, author CATHERINE THIMMESH didn’t even have Internet access. To do research, she combed through library books, searching for history’s overlooked female inventors.
Two decades later, women and girls have done even more inventing. So Thimmesh updated her book. The new version shines a light on female inventors of the past 5,000 years. It tells the stories of the women behind the ice-cream cone, the Roomba vacuum, and a test for Ebola virus—to name a few.
Thimmesh told TFK that, despite the book’s title, she doesn’t think girls are more inventive than boys. “Anybody can invent,” she says. “I hope both boys and girls take the book as a springboard to work on their own great idea.”
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