Synopsis
Mother Teresa, Toni Morrison, Barbara McClintock, Marie Curie, and Aung San Suu Kyi are among the women profiled. Full-color photos and illustrations.
Children's Literature
We've done our best, but we still could do more, for women today hold only about 30% of the available professional positions. Encourage young girls entry into the world of science and math with the "Women in Profile" series. This title features six women who have won Nobel honors. Among them are Aung San Suu Kyi, Marie Curie, Nadine Gordimer, Barbara McClintock, Toni Morrison, and Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, plus brief profiles of seven more women who received this great prize. Each title consists of eye-catching portrait-covers, colorfully photo-illustrated, magazine-style biographies that contain sidebars with "Key Events" and "Backgrounder" columns and pertinent quotations. Readers easily overwhelmed by large blocks of type will be particularly attracted to this series, which includes Explorer, Writers, Scientists, Political Leaders, Musicians, and Nobel Prize Winners.