Women Discoverers: Top Women in Science (NBM Comics Biographies)

Graphic novels, memoirs, and biographies are good inital ways to introduce readers to people, places, and things. This particular book, written by Marie Moinard and illustrated by Christelle Pecout is a nice introduction to a diverse set of women in science, both well known and a quite a few whose accomplishments should be better remembered or acknowledged than they are. The women in the collection are from all over the world and are from varied scientific disciplines. Some are still living while others are long since dead. The more well known women, Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, Hedy Lamarr, Rosalind Franklin, and Mae Jemison, are given full comics, several pages long, depicting their lives while the less well known are given very brief show more one page biographies. The information on each woman is simple and easy to understand. The art is in the realistic style and shows not only a head shot of each woman but also each woman at work with her notable discovery. This is very much an introductory book, one that will hopefully inspire interested girls and women (and boys and men) to dive deeper into these impressive women. show less

This small comic book contains the biographies of 30 female scientists. A few of these biographies are merely written in paragraphs while five are done in 20+ page comic strip panels. The ladies featured include Marie Curie, Dorothy Vaughn, Hedy Lamar, Katherine Johnson and Mae Jemison.

I found the book to be informative. Many of these ladies I had not heard of before. To say that the book will be inspiring to young girls is a given. Most of these ladies grew up in societies that did not allow women to work, let alone get an education and a job. Their trials when they were young can only give hope to today's young girls.