Tanya Lee Stone

This inspiring story is about an extraordinary woman who changed America forever because she wouldn't take no for an answer.

"A nonfiction picture book history of Monopoly, one of the world's most famous games" --

Highlights ten animals known to live in the Northeast, including the groundhog, the red fox, and the blue crab.

Presents the story of Jane Addams, founder of the children's charity known as Hull House, and the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

"An inspiring nonfiction picture book about Rosalind Franklin, the groundbreaking chemist who helped discover the structure of DNA, by the award-winning, bestselling author of Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? and Elizabeth Leads the Way"--

"Readers learn about Mattel Toys and the background behind Barbie's concept and development, how it was a solution for girls who wanted to imagine adult roles rather than just play mother, and details about inventor Ruth Handler."--Amazon.com.

As a boy, Sandy was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older he started creating wire sculptures. Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences.