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Title Girls who build : inspiring curiosity and confidence to make anything possible / Katie Hughes ; illustrated by Kay Coenen.
Publisher New York : Black Dog & Leventhal, 2020.
Description xiii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm


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 LW-Children's Room  MAKERSPACE J745 HUG Nearby on shelf  30641006261627 01-13-21  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Celebrate the can-do attitude of fierce girls who know how to wield a hammer, fire up a saw, and build everything from a bookshelf to a playhouse. Featuring project photographs, this guide will inspire you to pick up your power tools and make something great. Carpenter Katie Hughes frequently found that she was the only woman on construction worksites. To change that, she began teaching classes to girls ages 8-14, showing them how to drill, saw, and weld. Her classes quickly became sold out summer camps and she founded her own non-profit, Girls Build. Girls Who Build features candid and arresting photographs of forty-five girls showing off their power tools and can-do attitudes. Accompanying each girl is a profile interview where she speaks to her inspirations and favorite builds, plus tips for others starting out. Also included are building skills, techniques, and safety tips to teach girls -- and older beginners -- how to handle hammers, drills, and saws plus thirteen do-it-herself building projects (from the featured girls themselves) such as picture frames, nightstands, playhouses, and more.
Subject Building -- Juvenile literature.
Engineering -- Juvenile literature.
Women construction workers -- Juvenile literature.
Women in engineering -- Juvenile literature.
Handicraft for girls.
Other title Inspiring curiosity and confidence to make anything possible
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