Great book for anyone who's interested to learn of kids who thought way outside the box.

This will motivate young minds and those in need of a different perspective, to look at the world in an entirely new way.

Loved the stories and the people featured.

Recommended book on my TV segment in April. (link is added)

I received a copy of this book for an honest review.

Sorry, I did not get to read this book due to the date clashing with my final weeks of thesis work. Looks interesting so I will keep an eye out for the book.

Robin Stevenson consistently creates high quality non-fiction texts with inclusive content. “Kid Innovators” is yet another shinning example of her commitment to diversity when examining individuals of significance in fields like technology, education, business, science, art, and entertainment. This wonderfully readable book makes a greater pairing with her earlier book “Kid Activists”. Both titles are must have for school libraries and perfect choices for middle grade readers interested in learning about trailblazers before them.

Part of a children's biographical series, this latest addition does not disappoint. The colorful artwork and inspirational mini bios are a good place to start for kids who enjoy history or need direction for biography subjects. Subjects include a wide range of people from different cultures and places. Best for middle grades.

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It's an incredibly inspirational book about where your passions can lead you. I loved how it featured people both well known and less known, and shows all the types of paths that the kids can take depending on what they are passionate about. I think this is truly a wonderful book to have in the classroom and allows students to see that the world is their playground!

My 11yo son loves reading this series, we discovered it with the first two books Kid Presidents and Kid Athletes. While this book has a different author and illustrator, it follows the same formula of layout and writing. Shorter chapters and colorfully vibrant illustrations to keep the readers’ attention. The really interesting element about the Kid Innovators book is the innovators’ experiences with adversity, either because they were just so eccentric, their ethnicity, or their family’s financial status. The stories show the innovators struggling, failing, and persevering to be successful, all of which are great life lessons for our kids. From Jonas Salk who created the Polio vaccine to Elon Musk founder of Tesla and SpaceX to Florence Nightingale and her transformation of nursing and medicine, these are all amazing true stories that will entertain and energize a young reader.

What a great book! Comprehensive, appropriately paced and diverse. I love the Kid series, I think it helps younger students (middle grade/elementary) see how their current interests could lead the way to a career they never thought of! I love that we had classics like Walt Disney and Steve Jobs, but also included Maria Montessori, Jonas Salk, Alvin Ailey.

History is one of the most important subjects for children. Not only does it show how we got the world we're in right now, but it also allows us to build better futures. A good knowledge of what's come before can help to inspire people to go on to do great things, and Kid Innovators is a prime example of a book that can show children that they can achieve amazing things.

The book is split into sections, with each one featuring a handful of people from across the world and across history, some recent, and some much older. There'll be names in the book that a lot of readers will be familiar with, such as Bill Gates or Florence Nightingale, but also a lot of lesser known people like William Kamkwamba and Maria Montessori. There are sections for things such as technology, or saving lives.

Each person in the book is given several pages where Robin Stevenson talks about their life and their achievements, but particular focus is given over to their childhoods. A good many of these biographies tend to skip over much of these people's later years, even if these are the years where they achieved the most or are best known for. This is intentional, as the book seems to be trying to encourage children to pursue their interests, to find their passion and never give up; things that were a vital part of these people's lives.

As the book is designed to appeal to younger readers there's a lot of illustrations throughout, with each biography getting several. The illustrations are bold, bright, and colourful, and help to break up what could be quite long and dry sections of writing for younger readers.

Along with the short biographies the book has a list of additional books that readers could check out if they're interested of learning more, and as such this makes a pretty good starting resource for readers of all ages. The book is designed for children, but I learnt some new things because of it, and as such am definitely going to be going out of my way to learn a little bit more if I can.

A great introduction to some interesting and inspiring people that could capture a child's imagination and encourage them to pursue their dreams.

I love Robin Stevenson’s series called Kid Legends. This is another great addition to the current six book series. This book is broken down into four sections and within are four innovators. I think this book has a good balance of men, women and backgrounds. My wish would be adding one woman in the Seas, Skies and Outer Space chapters.
I read this book to my children who are ages 8 and 10. Each section had at least one person that my children did not recognize. People such as Reshma Saujani, William Kamkwamba, and Alvin Ailey. The fun colors, illustrations and length of stories was the right amount to appeal to their age. I think this book could be used in classrooms and for readers from K-6. At the back of the book is a bibliography showcasing additional books for teachers and students to reference and learn more about these legends.

My kids really enjoyed reading this one their own and with me. My daughter especially who loves to read about famous people. I would recommend this to friends with elementary age children.

Kid innovators

I love that this book is broken down into sections relating to the type of invention;
Tech revolution
Sea, skies and outer space
Cracking codes and saving lives
Trailblazers
The book starts with a wonderful introduction about thinking outside the box and being a trailblazer for world change.
Each section delves into the lives of people we recognise today as key in leading inventions and change. The book details their life as children, looking at their characters as well as focusing on their strengths and ingenuity. This really humanises their stories and enables the reader to see them as ‘real’ people with lives just like their own. I particularly liked reading about Bill Gates attending therapy as an adolescent to better his relationship with his parents.

Each person is awarded a few pages of biographical information and the depth the book goes into for each person is impressive. I feel this book has an edge over many books of this type because of the amount of information given about each person and the style of the writing. It’s very descriptive as well as informative which makes this book very easy to read and digest.

The illustrations are really fun and add to the text, they are not the main event of the book but help highlight and add honour to features of each biography.

This is a fantastic book and we will be adding it to our home library. Many thanks to Netgalley and Quirk books for the chance to read and review.

I thought that this book about the young lives of famous innovators was a great read and one that I will be utilizing in the classroom. The author did a great job of including people from different areas, not just those that invented something. The writing is great, as the author didn't spend a lot of time on mundane details that would bore a younger reader.

This is such an inspirational book. It lets children know that nothing is beyond their realms of possibility. Children are hugely hugely capable and have the capacity to be incredibly creative, the just need motivation and sometimes inspiration too. The book provides both of those. I highly recommend it. It will be a feature in my classroom from now on!

This book was so adorable! I love books that empower kids to aim for the sky and be whatever they want to be. By seeing books like this one a child is less likely to think they aren't capable, so I'm all for increasing the number of books targeted for children's inspiration. The images were really cute and I can't wait to see the completed book. The information was also laid out in a really easy-to-read format that is perfect for kids! I would definitely recommend this book to anyone that wants to learn about famous innovators throughout history.

This book will be a terrific classroom library addition! The concise biographies would make great mentor texts for both learning the genre of biographies as well as writing biographies. There was a great mixture of innovators of different time periods, genders, races, and impacts. As a teacher, I loved the underlying theme of acting on curiosity and seeking out information in both reading and experimenting.

I received an electronic ARC from Quirk Books through NetGalley.
Stevenson offers biographies that are geared to elementary level readers. Sixteen men and women who have made changes in the world through their creativity and ingenuity. The text provides enough information to challenge readers to learn and grow. Most of the biographies begin with their birth or early childhood so readers can identify with pieces of their lives. The simple illustrations offer glimpses into certain moments of their lives as well.
One more in this series that encourages readers to learn about the past and begin to identify their own passions and strengths.

I love this series. I love short stories about successful people. This was fascinating to read about how these inventors began. What early successes and failures they experienced. I hope this series continues.

The Kid Legend Series is amazing and this latest title is no exception. It is divided into four parts (Tech Revolution; Seas, Skies, and Outer Space; Cracking Codes and Saving Lives; and Trailblazers) and includes such innovators as Grace Hopper, Jacques Cousteau, Hedy Lamarr; and Alvin Ailey. All the names were familiar to me, but some readers may not recognize Reshma Saujani and William Kamkwamba.

The biographies are engaging but feel simplistic. With few exceptions, all childhoods are shown as largely positive and even negative personal characteristics are heavily downplayed. Each biography also glosses over how the innovator went from childhood to success. There are better books out there.

This book will appeal to those who like Little Leaders and other books of short, inspirational biographies. The stories themselves are interesting and entertaining. However, the biographies feel vey simplified, to the point of ignoring any negative charactaristics of the subjects. For example, the only acknowledgment that Steve Jobs might be less than a great guy was a short sentence admitting he was "difficult" as an adult. Even when the author discussed the pranks he played as a kid, it was played off as being someone else's fault. He was a good kid. I have mixed feelings about whether I would recommend this book to my students, even though I know they would enjoy it. Those who are old enough to read this are old enough to realize that people can do good things in some areas and make big mistakes in other areas of their lives.

Thanks to the publisher and to Net Galley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.