This riveting nonfiction picture book biography explores both the failures and successes of self-taught engineer Emma Lilian Todd as she tackles one of the greatest challenges of the early 1900s: designing an airplane.
As an adult, typing.
As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked.
Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions.
Emma Lilian Todd\'s mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems.
This riveting nonfiction picture book biography explores both the failures and successes of self-taught engineer Emma Lilian Todd as she tackles one of the greatest challenges of the early 1900s: designing an airplane