When Everything Went Wrong

10 Real Stories of Inventors Who Didn't Give Up!

By: Max Temporelli, Barbara Gozzi, Agnese Innocente (Illustrator)

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Hardcover | 2 May 2023

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Hardcover
80 Pages

Age
7 - 12

Grade
2 - 6

Dimensions(cm)
23.11 x 19.3 x 1.02

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Did you know? Some of the world's greatest inventions started off as failures! Inventions like Coca-Cola, shoes, and vacuum cleaners were actually mistakes. Told in a mixture of comic panels and prose, this gorgeous book shares the stories of 10 of these fabulous inventions.

Thomas Edison famously said, “I have not failed once at making a light bulb, I have simply found ninety-nine ways of not making ones.” In When Everything Went Wrong, readers will read about 10 inventors who persevered. Making mistakes doesn't mean you failed . . . it's all part of the process!

Inventors included in this book are:

Thomas Edison
Jan Matzeliger
Guglielmo Marconi
Wilson Greatbach
James Dyson
Margarete Steiff
Stephanie Louis Kwolek
Charles Goodyear
Percy Spencer
John Stith Pemberton

Kids will love all the fun facts and true stories in this book, told in both prose and comic form!

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