In the Bag!
Margaret Knight Wraps It Up
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Tundra’s Great Idea Series is comprised of biographies of inventors for early readers. The third book in the series introduces the fascinating Margaret Knight. Known as Mattie, she was different from most American girls living in 1850. She loved to make things with wood and made the best kites and sleds in town. Her father died when she was only three, and by the time she was twelve, she was working at the local cotton mill alongside her two older brothers. One day, she saw a worker get injured by a shuttle that had come loose from the giant loom, and the accident inspired her to invent a stop-motion device. It was the first of her many inventions.
Margaret Knight devoted her life to inventing, and is best known for the clever, practical, paper bag. When she died in 1914, she had ninety inventions to her name and over twenty patents, astounding accomplishments for a woman of her day. Monica Kulling’s easy-to-read text, peppered with lots of dialogue, brings an amazing, inspiring woman to life.
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Third in the Great Idea series, this concise introduction to trailblazing American inventor Margaret "Mattie" Knight (1838 1914), reveals a woman committed to living life on her own terms, unafraid to fight for her successes. In clean, straightforward prose, Kulling explains how Knight's interest in and knack for machines was present even at a young age; after witnessing a colleague's injury while working in a cotton mill at age 12, Knight devised a safety mechanism that gained widespread use. Paired with Parkins's detailed and handsome pen-and-ink illustrations, the book focuses on Knight's invention of a paper bag manufacturing machine and her legal fight to protect her creation after her idea was stolen. Ages 5 8.
