Garrett's Store

The Ingenuity of a Young Garrett Morgan

M J Mouton author Jezreel Cuevas illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Rare Bird Books

Published:30th Apr '20

Should be back in stock very soon

Garrett's Store cover

  • This is the sixth of the Tiny Thinkers series of children's books following famous scientists
  • This features Garrett Morgan, an African-American scientist who invented the smoke hood for firefighters, as well as chemical hair straighteners
  • He, the son of a freed slave, owned a clothing store in Ohio in the early 1900s
  • The entirety of the Tiny Thinkers series is trying to introduce kids to scientists and talk about how they came to discover what they discovered

    • The sixth book in the Tiny Thinkers series covers Garrett Morgan!

    Garrett Morgan invented the respiratory device that powered WWI gas masks, as well as chemical hair straighteners and and improved sewing machine. A trailblazer in many aspects of his life, Morgan's story is one that kids and adults will love! Follow Garrett Morgan as he builds his store, and begins to invent some of the items we still rely on today.

    Praise for M. J. Mouton

    "Engagingly written by M. J. Mouton and charmingly illustrated by Jezreel S. Cuevas, and part of the simply outstanding Tiny Thinkers series from Rare Bird Books, Carl Went To The Library: The Inspiration of a Young Carl Sagan is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to family, preschool, elementary school, and community library collections!"
    ―Midwest Book Review

    ISBN: 9780998314747

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: unknown

    24 pages