The Fantastically Feminist (and Totally True) Story of the Mathematician Extraordinaire
Author & Illustrator: Anna Doherty
Publisher: Wren & Rook
Published: August 2019
ISBN: 9781526361035
Number of pages: 32
Format: Hardback & PaperbackAvailable in UK and USA!
Meet the remarkable Ada Lovelace: rebellious rule-breaker and maths whizz-kid.
Growing up in the shadow of her eccentric superstar father, the poet Lord Byron, and under the eye of her strict mother, Ada spends her time inventing and designing flying machines and studying her favourite subject - maths. In Ada's time, girls aren't encouraged to pursue maths, physics or engineering as they're considered not clever enough but Ada doesn't let this stop her. Once she grows up, Ada meets the famous inventor and engineer Charles Babbage, who introduces her to a truly extraordinary machine ... one that will test Ada's powers of logic and imagination, and establish her as the world'd very first computer programmer!
This is the absolutely astonishing, fantastically feminist and, best of all, totally true story of one amazingly determined young lady!
Read An Ode to Ada Lovelace, and why we need more books about diverse women in STEAM, an guest blog post about the making of Ada Lovelace