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Marvelous Mattie how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor

Mattie Knight loved to make things ranging from a foot warmer for her mother or toys for her older brothers. Or, when she was 12, a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off looms and hurting workers. Later, Mattie invented a machine that could cut and glue the square-bottomed paper bags we...

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Main Author: McCully, Emily Arnold
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
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Knight, Margaret E., > 1838-1914 > Juvenile nonfiction.
Inventors > United States > Biography > Juvenile.
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Summary:Mattie Knight loved to make things ranging from a foot warmer for her mother or toys for her older brothers. Or, when she was 12, a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off looms and hurting workers. Later, Mattie invented a machine that could cut and glue the square-bottomed paper bags we still use today. Meet the woman known as "the Lady Edison."
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Awards:A Junior Library Guild selection.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:0374348103 (hardcover) :
9780374348106 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Emily Arnold McCully was born in Galesburg, Illinois on July 1, 1939. She graduated from Pembroke College, now a part of Brown University, in 1961 and received an M.A. in art history from Columbia University.

After graduation, she held a variety of jobs in the art field that included being a commercial artist, a designer of paperback covers, and illustrating advertisements. When one of her illustrations was seen on an advertisement in the subway, she was asked to illustrate Greg Panetta's Sea Beach Express. She accepted that offer and went on to illustrate over 100 children's books. In 1969, she illustrated Meindert de Jong's Journey from the Peppermint Express, which was the first children's book to receive the National Book Award.

Her first solo venture, Picnic, won the Christopher Award in 1985. Mirette on the High Wire won the Caldecott Medal in 1993. Her other children's books include Amazing Felix, Crossing the New Bridge, Grandmas at the Lake, My Real Family, and The Pirate Queen.

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