Judith St. George is a distinguished author and the recipient of numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal. This entertaining book encourages young listeners to become creative thinkers. People with great ideas, some famous and some not so much, invented the things we use everyday. Inventors like Ben Franklin, the Wright Brothers, Heddy Lamar, and Josephine Cochran dreamed the big dreams that led to the lightning rods, airplanes, torpedoes and dishwashers. "... take(s) a skewed, funny, and informative look at the history of inventions and their inventors and what it takes to become one."-School Library Journal