DK Life Stories: Ada Lovelace by Nancy Castaldo
9.90 CHF
Category: Biography | Series: DK Life Stories Ser.
In this kids' biography, discover the inspiring story of Ada Lovelace, who wrote the world's first computer program. In 1833, Ada Lovelace met mathematician Charles Babbage, inventor of calculating machines. She went on to devise a way of inputting data into Babbage's Analytical Machine, and in doin ...Show more
DK Life Stories: Harriet Tubman by Kitson Jazynka
12.00 CHF
Category: Biography | Series: DK Life Stories Ser.
In this kids' biography, discover the inspiring story of Harriet Tubman, a fearless activist and abolitionist who helped free many slaves. Born into slavery in c.1820, Harriet Tubman would later run away and help scores of other African American slaves escape to freedom in the North using the Underg ...Show more
Great Leaders: Kids Like You That Became Inspiring Leaders (When I Grow up) by DK
11.90 CHF
Category: Biography
How do little kids grow up to make a change and become inspiring leaders? Find out in this beautiful board book for little ones with big dreams. Everyone, from Nelson Mandela to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was once a small child learning about the world. Read how a diverse array of kids discovered what they we ...Show more
Jane Goodall (DK Life Stories) by .
12.00 CHF
Category: Biography | Series: DK Life Stories
In this kids biography, discover the inspiring story of Jane Goodall, whose work with chimpanzees changed the way we understand animals and ourselves. Jane Goodall was a pioneer of primatology through her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees in Africa. When she embarked on her career, women were discour ...Show more
Katherine Johnson (DK Life Stories) by Ebony Joy Wilkins
12.00 CHF
Category: Biography | Series: Life Stories Ser.
In this biography, discover the inspiring story of Katherine Johnson, famed NASA mathematician and one of the subjects of the award-winning 2016 film Hidden Figures. It was an incredible accomplishment when the United States first put a person on the Moon - but without the incredible behind-the-scenes w ...Show more
Leonardo da Vinci (DK Life Stories)
12.00 CHF
Category: Biography | Series: DK Life Stories
Discover the inspiring story of Leonardo da Vinci, the artist, inventor, and engineer of the Italian Renaissance, in this fascinating kids' biography. Leonardo was a creative genius who wanted to understand how things worked. This book traces his life, from his birth in a hilltop village near Florence, ...Show more
Who Was Pablo Picasso? by True Kelley
7.90 CHF
Category: Biography | Series: Who Was? Ser. | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Over a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world and translating it into art. A restless genius, he went through a blue period, a rose period, and a Cubist phase. He made collages, sculptures out of everyday objects, and beautiful ceramic plates. True Kelley's eng ...Show more
World History Biographies: Marco Polo - The Boy Who Traveled the Medieval World by Nick McCarty
8.90 CHF
Category: Biography | Series: National Geographic World History Biographies Ser.
In a life of ceaseless exploration, Marco Polo pushed out the borders of his narrow medieval world. Born in Venice in 1254, the young Marco Polo first met his father at age 15, when the elder Polo returned from a trading expedition to the East. The father's tales of the court of the Kublai Khan in Chin ...Show more
Marie Curie (DK Life Stories) by .
12.00 CHF
Category: Biography | Series: DK Life Stories
Discover the inspiring story of Marie Curie - the scientist who made more than one world-changing discovery, and the first woman to win a Nobel prize - in this fascinating kids' biography. Born to poor school teachers at a time when women could not attend university in her home country of Poland, Marie ...Show more