Hooray for Inventors! - by Marcia Williams (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"Pages bustle with activity, often marked with a certain zany humor." -- Booklist

In her trademark vivacious comic- book style, Marcia Williams honors the fine folks who brought us the printing press, the steam train, the electric light, the TV, and more. Interspersed are snapshots of more than one hundred other inventions, from toilet paper to sliced bread, to inspire the inventor in every young reader.

Back matter includes an index of inventors and an index of inventions.

Review Quotes

The pages bustle with activity, often marked with a certain zany humor.
--Booklist

Exuberant.
--Kirkus Reviews

An enthusiastic approach to an often-pedestrian subject.
--Horn Book

This oversize, entertaining book provides the stories behind some of the world's greater and lesser inventions.
--School Library Journal

This overview gives a taste of the richness and, well, inventiveness of the creative throughout history.
--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, The

In rambunctious good-humored comic strips and single-panel cartoons, Marcia Williams celebrates inventors both famous and forgotten.
--Natural History

Witty comic-style profiles take readers into the creative genius of eight inventors who changed the world.
--Yellow Brick Road

About the Author

Marcia Williams has written and illustrated many books in her highly successful and hilarious comic-strip style. Of Hooray For Inventors!, she says, "It is awesome to think that it's only comparatively recently that we've had electric light, yet now we find it almost impossible to imagine life without it. The utter darkness that surrounded people would have continued to cloak us without . . . inventors! Hooray for them!" Marcia Williams lives in London.