Tami Lewis Brown

Elinor Smith was six when she first went for a ride in a rickety flying machine, and she was just sixteen when she earned her aviation license in 1928. But not everyone thought that girls should fly. When male pilots and newspapermen mocked her, Elinor decided to perform an aerial maneuver they thought was impossible: flying under all four bridges that span New York City's East River.

A little bit chemistry, a little bit history, a little bit art - the story of the man who discovered a chemical process for designing purple for the masses.

I'm not a Chemistry fan so admittedly this picture book was not my favorite in the biography realm. But learning about discoveries and how purple dye came to be was an interesting story to learn. The author's notes in the back are quite extensive which I appreciated as well.