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Fantastically Great Women Scientists and Their Stories

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Fantastically Great Women Scientists and Their Stories by Kate Pankhurst, and Kate Pankhurst

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By Kate Pankhurst, and and, Kate Pankhurst

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As a child Mae Jemison imagined herself reaching for the stars and that’s exactly what she did: she became the first African-American woman to go into space. When Elizabeth Blackwell was told women weren’t allowed to be doctors, she didn’t take no for an answer. Tu Youyou spent months on a remote island during the Vietnam War to try and invent a treatment for malaria – and she did it.

Including comic strips, family trees, maps and more, Fantastically Great Women Scientists and Their Stories is a celebration of women who made some of the world’s most important scientific breakthroughs.

Reviews

12 Jul 2024

This is one of my favourite books ever.
And Kate Pankhurst is my favourite author.
Her books tell me loads of interesting facts about women who changed the world.
And it inspires me a lot!

03 Sep 2023

I liked learning about Dr Blackwell

01 Sep 2023

I liked this book because it was really interesting and it made me aware of female scientists and what they did. A very inspiring book.

31 Jul 2023

Not my favourite book but it is interesting to hear their amazing stories. But I personally thought it was a bit repetitive and sadly I didn't really enjoy it.

22 Jul 2023

I loved all the cool facts and mum hardly knew any of the people in the book

21 Feb 2023

I love this book, it's a beautiful book, telling you about women who changed the world because they believe in themselves.
Prepare to be inspired!
Recommended for 8+.
Highly recommended.

04 Sep 2022

I liked it was about some amazing women. It was my favourite and learning about Elizabeth Blackwell who is a doctor that studied a lot.

02 Sep 2022

Very good.

27 Aug 2022

I like the book because it inspires people
And I recommend everyone to read this book

28 Jul 2022

I liked it ,it was an inspirational story about women who changed the world even though people doubted them and helped me think of ways to help society.👍

24 Jul 2022

This was quite a good book that I would recommend if you fantasy a book to just to learn a few facts from. I fond this book relatively intresting and verry easy to read. The auther of this book (Kate Panhurst) has also done loads of other books about fantastic about grate wimin who have made history which I found verry enjoyable aswell.

18 Jul 2022

I really enjoyed this book and went to the theatre to see the stage version. It had good songs and inspirational stories

27 Dec 2021

This book was so inspirational! I loved how it was laid out and how the illustrations made it a fun and engaging book to read. The stories of these women scientists was amazing and really intriguing. It really shows that women can do anything men can do! Girl Power! I would definitely recommend.

26 Dec 2021

I loved it my favourite woman was Elizabeth Blackwell I even went to meet Kate Pankhurst when the book was out

11 Sep 2021

Good

07 Sep 2021

I love this book it is so intresting so much that I read it 100 times but the problem is that it dosn't have all lot of people

06 Sep 2021

I love these history books. They are all about famous women and I like learning about history and reading their stories and achievements is interesting and fun.

01 Sep 2021

This book teaches about life and skills.
It is an interesting book and I realised that women were not treated equally earlier years and should be treated with respect. They can grow their careers in any field including science. Very inspiring book and would recommend especially girls to read.

01 Sep 2021

it is a very interesting book

01 Sep 2021

It taught me I can do whatever I like

30 Aug 2021

I think this book was a very interesting book and is a book that you can’t put down! If you’re interested into books about what history women created or any non fiction books, this book is for you.

28 Aug 2021

I kind of liked this book. My favourite was chapter was about Caroline Herschel. She was called Cinderella by her family because she was always cleaning the house but then she became the Cinderella who swept the sky as she discovered an important comet. This was a factual story. I would recommend it to people who like to see that women have a place in their life as well as men.

28 Aug 2021

I love history. This book was brilliant because it was about history but it was fun. My favourite discovery was Rosalind Franklin’s discovery of the structure of DNA. She found out that it was a Double Helix Structure.

26 Aug 2021

Very interesting book. It is filled with very good stories about fab scientists.

25 Aug 2021

It was really good.

24 Aug 2021

I like that women can be amazing and scientists, and that women can be doctors too!

24 Aug 2021

I like that women can be amazing and be scientists.

22 Aug 2021

I thought this book was amazing. I loved all the scientists and thought what they did was absolutely inspiring. One of my favourite scientists was Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin.

21 Aug 2021

This book is fine.

21 Aug 2021

I liked how many women have risen to be great people.

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